DİYARBAKIR - On the 461st week of their sit-in, Relatives of Disappeared asked what happened to Hacı Şili, who was forcibly disappeared in 1993.

 

Human Rights Association (İHD) Diyarbakır Branch and the Relatives of Disappeared have staged a sit-in with the motto, “Disappeared people must be found; the perpetrators must be tried” every week. Today, the members of İHD Diyarbakır Branch and Relatives of Disappeared gathered in building of the İHD Diyarbakır Branch for 461 times. The Human Rights Foundation of Turkey Diyarbakır representative, Peace Mothers’ Assembly members, Diyarbakır Chamber of Medicine members, Diyarbakır Bar Association members and Veli Saçılık attended this week sit-in. The people asked what happened to 23-year-old Hacı Şili, who was forcibly disappeared in Güçlükonak town of Şırnak province in 1993.

 

Commission Against Disappearances of the İHD Diyarbakır Branch member Hasan Yalçın told of the story of Hacı Şili; “Hacı Şili was a shepherd in Güçlükonak. In the morning, soldiers came from an operation went to area where the Şili siblings stayed and began to beat them by using their gun strokes. Four teeth of Tahir Şili were broken. The commander asked Hacı Şili to carry his bag to the car. Hacı, the commander and soldiers went into the forest and disappeared from sight. His brother waited for him until night and then he applied to the Gideran Police Station. The police told him ‘we don’t have any information on your brother’. Thereupon, Tahir went to Eruh Gendarmerie Station but he didn’t receive any information.”

 

After reading of the statement, the Relatives of Disappeared staged a five-minute sit in.