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- 1995/02
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Report (Amnesty International publication number AI EUR 44/01/95) documenting cases of 'disappeared' people, torture of common criminals, trials against human rights defenders and prisoners of conscience, and other human rights abuses in southeast Turkey as a result of the conflict between the Turkish Government and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The report accuses both sides of extrajudicial killings of Kurdish villagers, noting: that Turkish gendarmes reportedly torture, 'disappear' and execute villagers in the course of security raids on rural settlements, that the PKK execute village guards (Kurdish villagers paid and armed by the Government to fight the PKK) and kill their wives and children while paying lip-service to the Geneva Conventions; and that the PKK 'has a declared policy of "executing" teachers and other non-military government officials'. The report accuses the Government of denying that security forces have been involved in at least some of the killings.
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