Aysel Işık/JINHA

ŞIRNEX – Cemile Çagırga (10) was killed by snipers in her home yard during the siege in Cizre and her body was put into a deep freezer. “They killed my two daughters in the same yard in 1990s. Fatma was 10 years old that time. They killed Cemile in the same yard, how can I be fraternal with them?” asked Emine Çagırga mother of Cemile.

21 civilians were killed in the curfew declared in Cizre on September 4, 2015 and two of them were children. One of these children is Cemile Çagırga who was killed in her home yard. The public opinion knew about her when her family put her dead body in a deep freezer. Cemile’s mother Emine Çagırga said, “We called Cemile as Cizir at home. They killed my daughter in my home yard. They had killed one of my daughters in the same yard in the 1990s.”

The life story of Emine is just one story of the Kurdish people faced. Emine continued to tell us. “The murderers have been same since 1990s. There was a siege in Cizre in 1990s. No one could go out. They shelled this home. Seven people died. They had killed two of my daughters in the same place they killed Cemile. My daughter Fatma was killed when she was 10 years old like Cemile.

“I was also wounded when they shelled our home. My eardrums had burst upon the explosion. I found Fatma on the ground when I went to out. They took my daughter’s dead body to Mardin and they didn’t allow us to bury her for days. Finally, we buried my two daughters and five people from my husband’s family. My Cemile was killed in the same place where my two daughters had been killed by the state. We held noise demos following the curfew had been begun to be imposed in Cizre. Cemile took her tambourine and go out every night. That day, she went to out again. I went to out and saw Cemile. Cemile asked me ‘what are you doing mother?’ and I told her ‘your clothes are wet, come and change your clothes,’ she replied me as, ‘Ok mother’. I heard cry when I turned my back. I saw Cemile on the ground; I called her, ‘my daughter Cemile’. At the end, my daughter looked me and told me, ‘mom aww’. This was her last word. I took her to home. Snipers killed my Cemile in the same place.”

Emine said she couldn’t believe Cemile was dead and she talked to her all night long. Emine said, “I held my Cemile on my lap. I didn’t believe she was dead. I put my hand on her heart and told her ‘wake up’; however, my daughter didn’t speak. We weren’t allowed to take the body out and my husband took the deep freezer of our neighbor and we put Cemile into it to save her dead body. I will never forgive those who killed my daughters. They killed my three daughters. How can I be fraternal with a state killed my daughters? I will struggle with the children who fight against this dirty mindset.”

(dk/gd)