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"EUROPE", Thursday 14 October 1993 - 16 - W 60B5 (n. s. )
(EU) EC/HUMANITARIAN AID: ASSISTANCE GRANTS TO lRAOIKURDS, INDIA AND BOUGAINVILLE
(PAPUA NEW GUINEA)
BRUSSELS 13/10/1993 (AGENCE EUROPE) - The European Commission has just approved three
new humanitarian aid packages. These are:
i) 3.25 million ECUs for Kurds in northern Iraq where there is a critical lack of
food, medicines and fuel (paraffin is 250 times more expensive than in the rest of the
country due to the difficulties in supplying this mountainous region). The assistance
is intended for the purchasing and distribution - via.the NGO Care International - of
12 million litres of paraffin for household use. The operation has been granted
exemption from the economic embargo on Iraq, and the funds granted by the Commission
will go through a United Nations guaranteed frozen account (Escrow Account). The
CommiSsion previously financed a similar operation (25 million litr~s of paraffin)
for the 1992/1993 wintérseason. .
ii) 360 000 ecus for earthquake victims in India (following a first 500 000 ecu grant
approved on 4 October). The aid will be channelled through Médecins du Monde-France
and the 'Secours Populaire Français: 200 000 ecus will be spent on emergency medical
aid; 160 000 ecus will be spent on the purchase and distribution essential goods.
iii) 56 560 ecus for the inhabitants of the island of Bougainvil.le (Papua New Guinea)
following the island's opening up to humanitarian aid, and with a view to supporting
the regional peace process. This aid package willbe administered by the Red Cross
and Red Crescent, and it to be used for the local purchase and distribution of the
basic goods needed by the island's 150 000 inhabitants (of whom 50 000 are displaced).
Thursday, October 14, 1993
turkish daily news
Saklk says villagers released after
their villages were burned by troops
Turkish Daily News
ANKARA- Hundreds of villagers detained
by troops after their villages were torched
on Tuesday have been released and are
safe, a parliamentarian disclosed on Wednesday.
.
Democracy Party (DEP) Deputy Sim Sa.
klk told the TDN m a telephone interviey,
from Mu~ that two of his villages had been
'" comp,letelydestroyed, "burned' to the ground,
' alongwith all the tobacco crop, which
is their main source of income. He quoted
villagers as saying that as soori as the troop~
arrived on Monday night they asked fOI
him. "I believe the attack was staged againsl
me and my family," he said. After the troop.s
set fire to the villages on Tuesday, the
villagers were taken at gunpoint to a forest
nearby. Only two or three people seem to be
missing. "Some have turned up and o~,hers
have migrated to Mu~ and other towns, Sak1k
said.
The parliamentarian added that paramilitary
village guards had accompanied ge~darmerie
soldiers in the raid and that illl animals
had been placed in military trucks and
taken away, "We don't know what's happened
to them," he said.
According to the DEP, the raids on the
Zengok and Keran villages -- which have
. been renamed in Turkish, Yurelik and Yamak
-- started on Monday.
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On Monday night, troops in military Reo
trucks and armored personnel carriers ente-
.red the village from the Diyarkabir road.
The first question they allegedly asked was,
"Where is Sim Saklk?" In the morning they
set fire to the houses and the crops. They
escorted the villagers away and then set a
curfew on the area, which remains closed io
civilians.
"They probably knew I w.as going to be
there on Monday night," said Saklk, noting
Investigation:
Meanwhile, a total of 13 DEP deputies on Wednesday
asked for a parliamentary investigation to be launched
with regard to a recent security operation conducted in
the Altmova village of Mu~, during which nine people
were allegedly killed, The deputies, referring to the Oct.2
incident, said in a statement that "following a clash between
PKK militants and security forces in which one officer
was killed, security forces armedwith heavy weapons
and escorted by armoured vehicles opened fire on
houses and workshops. During the incident, three houses
were totally burned and nine residents inside were killed."
The 13 deputies underlined that the office of the
Emergency Law governor had portrayed the attack as a
PKK raid. Emphasizing that one of the three houses be- .
longed to deputy Mayor, tbrahim SaYllgan, from the main
that his telephone was tapped and' that he
had told relatives of his plans to spend the
night at Zengok. "But, after seeing the ar.
mored troops heading that way, I thou8ht an
operation was underway and thought It wa~
not wise to go there," he explained.
opposition Motherland Party (ANAP), they said he and
Remzi. Karlai, DEP's spokesman for the his children were nearly killed, The DEP deputies also
party's 17 deputies in Parhament, warned in
claimed troops had machine-gunned all of the ànimals.
a statement that activities such as these we.
re pushing Turkey to the point of ethnic di- ~:~~~~~~:lopment on Wednesday, de.putYmayor
VISionday by day. He added that the onl)
way to prevent further violence was to "win of Mardin's Nusaybin township, Yusuf Dündar from DEP ~
the people" but said traditionally aggressive was 8un,ned 9own. ~y uniden,tJf1edgu~me~. Dundar was
methods were'making this impossible. "The hosplta!lzed In cntlcal conditIOn while hiS brother and
gap between the state and the people is gro- ~ncJe died on th~ spot. Abdullah Kaya, mayor of Kozluk
. ".. '" In Batman province, was arrested on the same day on
wmg day by day, he Said, accusmg those charges of condu.cting separatist propaganda.
running the country" of treachery. Kaya, from the Social Democrat People's Party (S.HP),
is to be tried for an interview published
Gündem newspaper.
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