’Death wells’ search halted
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Anatolia News Agency
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Mart 06, 2009 00:00
SİLOPİ-A planned excavation to uncover the bodies presumed buried in the state-owned BOTAŞ petroleum company’s pipeline wells was postponed yesterday for security reasons, the Anatolia news agency reported.
Şırnak Bar Association President Nuşirvan Elçi said the local prosecutor had told him the planned dig was postponed due to security concerns. A Silopi court had ordered the excavation take place between March 5 and 11.
The investigation of the wells is part of the inquiry launched after a former informant from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, Abdulkadir Aygan, claimed many people had ben murdered by anti-terrorism squads in the 1990s and then buried in the BOTAŞ wells.
Aygan claimed that in the 1990s those killed by anti-terrorism squads were buried in the wells after being dipped in baths of acid.
The investigation of the wells is part of the inquiry launched after a former informant from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, Abdulkadir Aygan, claimed many people had ben murdered by anti-terrorism squads in the 1990s and then buried in the BOTAŞ wells.
Aygan claimed that in the 1990s those killed by anti-terrorism squads were buried in the wells after being dipped in baths of acid.