JINHA

ŞIRNEX - Women said that Cizre would be rebuilt with the soul of massacred people. Women said, "We will never forget and forgive." When we asked the children "What is the state?" they answered us; "persecution".

After 79 days genocide attacks on the Cizre district of Şırnak, 24-hour curfew was lifted for daylight hours on March 2. Women begin to return to Cizre. Before going to check their homes, the women are going to check "basements of savagery". Dozens of people, including wounded, women and children had been trapped in three basements in Cizre. State forces shelled the basements. All people in the basements were burned to death by state forces. The basements are known as "basements of savagery". Women pray for those who were killed in the basements. Women said that they would never forget the state's persecution. We asked the children "What is the state?, they answered us as "it is persecution and death."

Sabiye Aydın, one of the women, looked for the "basements of savagery" between destroyed homes. "Our case is the case of humanity. I am 50 years old. I have experienced three massacres so far. I experienced them in Nusaybin, in my village and now in Cizre. The Kurdish people are an oppressed people. The Kurdish people are humanist people. They respect the rights of others. We will continue our struggle. Our children will write this savagery to the history."

Ayten Türk talked to us in front of first "basement of savagery". Mehmet Tunç gave a shout out to all people. Cizre Peoples' Assembly Co-President Mehmet Tunç had been trapped in a basement with wounded people in the Cizre district of Şırnak. He spoke live on a program and he gave the information about the wounded. However, the state forces attacked the basements. All wounded people and Mehmet Tunç were burned to death in the basement.) However, no state heard his scream. Whole world kept silent. All countries stayed by Turkey. There aren't human rights in the world. They trapped the people in the basements and they massacred them. Cizre becomes worse than Kobane. We will never leave Cizre. These lands are ours. They declared everyone as "terrorist". They massacred our young people. They killed only civilians in Cizre. We will never forget this savagery until we die. This wound will never be closed."

"They killed our youths. First they had burned our villages. Then we had to move to Cizre. We have been here for 20 years. They burned and demolished our homes here, too." said Semra Yen.

13-year- old Enes Tarık said, "Erdoğan bombed everything here. Even, we don't have a room. The state is oppressing us. It shells our homes. Why do they kill children? They can demolish our homes. But they mustn't kill us. Curfew means death for us. They killed children and young people. Erdoğan will never annihilate the Kurds. We will resist."

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