JamaliahYusofYacob - RT telah melancarkan petisyen meminta siasatan UNHRC yang dipimpin ke dalam dakwaan pembunuhan beramai-dakwaan orang awam Kurdish. Ia dikatakan telah dilakukan oleh tentera Turki semasa tindakan keras Ankara pada Kurd di tenggara negara.
Petisyen RT di Change.org: Kami menggesa UNHRC untuk menyiasat pembunuhan besar-besaran yang dikatakan Kurdis di Turki (RT’s petition on Change.org: We urge UNHRC to investigate alleged mass killing of Kurds in Turkey)
Krew RT melawat Cizre di wilayah Sirnak Turki berikutan laporan tindakan keras tentera kejam ke atas penduduk awam di kawasan itu. Ia didakwa termasuk penyembelihan beratus-ratus orang awam yang terperangkap di bawah tanah. Laporan yang muncul pada bulan Februari menyatakan bahawa kira-kira 150 orang telah dibakar hingga mati.
RT William Whiteman menyaksikan adegan mengejutkan kemusnahan di bandar Turki tenggara, dan dipungut akaun menakutkan daripada pembunuhan beramai-ramai yang didakwa orang awam Kurdis di sana.
Saksi-saksi yang terselamat serangan oleh tentera Turki disediakan Whiteman dengan butiran menakutkan kepada apa yang telah berlaku di kawasan yang kini musnah, dan menunjukkan lokasi pembunuhan besar-besaran yang dikatakan itu.
Rakaman dirakam oleh wartawan RT dalam Cizre telah dikemukakan kepada Human Rights Watch (HRW), cawangan-cawangan antarabangsa dan Timur Tengah Medics Tanpa Sempadan (MSF), Jawatankuasa Antarabangsa Palang Merah (ICRC), Pejabat Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu Pesuruhjaya Tinggi Hak Asasi Manusia (OHCHR), dan Amnesty International.
RT ditanya sama ada organisasi antarabangsa telah merancang untuk menyiasat dakwaan kekejaman tentera Turki 'terhadap orang awam, dan jika mana-mana kenyataan akan dibuat. Tiada seorang pun daripada mereka telah memberi maklum balas secara terperinci, memetik pelbagai sebab.
Amnesty International melalui e-mel mengatakan mereka "tidak akan dapat mengulas mengenai ini pada masa ini dan mesti menolak tawaran anda." HRW berkata penyelidik Turki mereka "masih mencari ke dalam dakwaan itu, tetapi tidak disediakan untuk komen pada masa ini."
ICRC berkata mereka tidak mempunyai pejabat Turki, dengan itu tidak boleh menyiasat keadaan di tenggara. Pejabat Pesuruhjaya Hak Asasi Manusia PBB di Geneva hanya ditawarkan satu siaran media bertarikh 1 Februari, manakala MSF tidak menjawab seperti penerbitan ini.
"Kami mahu menarik perhatian umum dan memanggil satu siasatan antarabangsa yang bebas yang diketuai oleh UNHRC ke dalam pembunuhan besar-besaran yang dikatakan Kurd di tenggara Turki," petisyen yang dilancarkan oleh RT pada platform Change.org itu berkata.
Ikuti LIVE TERKINI RT mengenai tindakan keras tentera Turki di Kurd di op anti-PKK (Follow RT's LIVE UPDATES on Turkey's military crackdown on Kurds in anti-PKK op)
Menteri Luar Rusia Sergey Lavrov dipanggil untuk siasatan terhadap laporan besar-besaran penyalahgunaan hak asasi manusia di tenggara Turki terhadap warga Kurdis.
"Mana-mana laporan, terutamanya mereka yang didokumenkan, kira-kira skala penyalahgunaan hak asasi manusia kurang ajar dan besar dan pelanggaran undang-undang kemanusiaan antarabangsa mesti disiasat. Terdapat prosedur antarabangsa khas untuk itu, "kata Lavrov.
Turki telah mendakwa ia akan meneruskan operasinya terhadap militia Kurdis, berkata matlamatnya adalah "untuk memastikan keamanan di rantau ini."
Jabatan Negara Amerika Syarikat berkata ia mempunyai "pasti mengakui hak Turki untuk mempertahankan dirinya daripada pengganas," merujuk kepada Parti Pekerja Kurdistan (PKK), kumpulan militan yang membawa perang gerila menentang Turki, tetapi menambah bahawa Ankara mesti "berbuat demikian mengikut dengan undang-undang dan obligasi antarabangsa yang mereka ada."
Pada 1 Januari, 200 ahli akademik dari seluruh DUNIA menandatangani petisyen mengecam operasi ketenteraan Turki terhadap orang Kurd. Dokumen itu telah berjenama "propaganda pengganas" oleh kerajaan Turki, dan lebih daripada 20 ahli akademik telah ditahan oleh pihak berkuasa Turki untuk menurunkan tandatangan.
BACA LAGI: akademik Turki Ditangkap menggesa rundingan damai - petisyen signee untuk RT (READ MORE: Arrested Turkish academics called for peace talks – petition signee to RT)
Laporan tentera Turki menyembelih puluhan orang awam yang terperangkap di bawah tanah Cizre pertama muncul pada bulan Februari. Seorang ahli Parlimen Turki dari Parti Demokratik Rakyat pro-Kurdis 'menuduh tentera yang punyai "dibakar hidup-hidup" di sekitar 150 orang, ketika mereka sedang terperangkap di bawah tanah di bangunan yang berbeza.
"Ada mayat ditemui tanpa kepala. Ada yang dibakar sepenuhnya, jadi bedah siasat yang tidak mungkin," Feleknas Uca kepada agensi berita Sputnik, sambil menambah bahawa "paling" yang terbunuh adalah Kurdis. Dalam laporan yang tidak disahkan itu, Ahli Parlimen memberi amaran bahawa lebih ramai orang akan menghadapi nasib yang sama, sebagai lebih daripada 200 kekal di dalam bangunan yang terperangkap di rantau ini.
BACA LAGI: 'Kurdis Turki terperangkap dalam mangsa Cizre keganasan negeri kejam' (READ MORE: ‘Turkish Kurds trapped in Cizre victims of brutal state terror’)
Sebelum tuntutan Ahli Parlimen Turki, agensi berita anha melaporkan penemuan lebih 100 mayat di Sur dan Cudi kejiranan daerah Cizre Sirnak ini. sampel DNA diambil daripada mangsa untuk mengenal pasti mayat, kerana mayat telah begitu teruk dibakar bahawa saudara-mara hanya dapat mengenal pasti 10 daripada mereka, menurut laporan itu.
Pada bulan Februari, Yayasan Hak Asasi Manusia Turki berkata, sejak 16 Ogos 2015 sehingga Februari 5, 2016 sekurang-kurangnya 224 orang awam (42 kanak-kanak, 31 wanita, 30 orang yang berumur 60 ke atas) kehilangan nyawa mereka di daerah dan semasa tempoh apabila perintah berkurung adalah secara rasmi diisytiharkan. Ia menambah: "Adalah dianggarkan bahawa, menurut 2014 banci penduduk, sekurang-kurangnya 1.377.000 penduduk terjejas" oleh mereka perintah berkurung dan hak-hak asasi dari orang-orang "telah dilanggar dengan jelas."
BACA LAGI: 'Ini adalah tindakan keras ke atas penduduk awam, tidak PKK': ahli politik Kurdis pada op tenggara Ankara (READ MORE: ‘This is a crackdown on civilian population, not PKK’: Kurdish politician on Ankara’s south-east op)
Amnesty International melaporkan pada Januari bahawa operasi tentera Turki yang dijalankan di bawah perintah berkurung bulat-yang-masa telah meletakkan kehidupan puluhan ribu orang yang berisiko dan merupakan "permulaan menyerupai hukuman kolektif."
"Dipotong untuk bekalan air dan elektrik yang digabungkan dengan bahaya mengakses makanan dan rawatan perubatan manakala di bawah serangan yang mempunyai kesan yang amat buruk kepada penduduk, dan keadaan itu mungkin menjadi lebih buruk, cepat, jika ini tidak ditangani," kata John Dalhuisen , pengarah Amnesty International untuk Eropah dan Asia Tengah.
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#JusticeForKurds: RT calls on UN
to probe Turkey's alleged killing Of Kurdish civilians
RT has launched a petition calling for a UNHRC-led investigation into claims of alleged mass killing of Kurdish civilians. It is said to have been committed by the Turkish military during Ankara's crackdown on Kurds in the country's southeast.
An RT crew visited Cizre in Turkey’s Sirnak province following reports of a brutal military crackdown on the civilian population in the area. It allegedly included slaughtering of hundreds of civilians trapped in basements. The reports which surfaced in February stated that some 150 people were burned to death.
RT's William Whiteman witnessed shocking scenes of destruction in the southeastern Turkish town, and collected horrifying accounts of an alleged massacre of Kurdish civilians there.
Witnesses who survived the offensive by the Turkish military provided Whiteman with terrifying details on what had happened in the now-devastated area, and showed the location of the alleged mass killing.
The footage shot by RT journalists in Cizre has been submitted to Human Rights Watch (HRW), the international and Middle East branches of Medics Without Borders (MSF), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and Amnesty International.
RT asked if the international organizations were planning to investigate the claims of Turkish forces' atrocities against civilians, and if any statements would be made. None of them have responded in detail, citing a variety of reasons.
Amnesty International emailed saying they "will not be able to comment on this at this time and must decline your offer."HRW said their Turkish researchers "are still looking into the allegations, but are not available to comment at present."
The ICRC said they do not have a Turkish office, thus cannot investigate the situation in its southeast. The UN Human Rights Commissioner's office in Geneva only offered a press-release dated February 1, while MSF have not replied as of this publication.
"We want to attract widespread public attention and call for an independent international investigation led by UNHRC into the alleged mass killing of Kurds in south-eastern Turkey," the petition launched by RT on the Change.org platform says.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called for an investigation into reports of massive human rights abuse in south-eastern Turkey against Kurdish nationals.
“Any reports, particularly those documented ones, about rude and large scale human rights abuse and violations of international humanitarian law must be investigated. There are special international procedures for that,” Lavrov said.
Turkey has claimed it will continue its operations against Kurdish militia, saying its aim is "to ensure peace in the region."
The US State Department said it has "certainly acknowledged Turkey’s right to defend itself against terrorists," referring to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the militant group leading a guerrilla war against Turkey, but added that Ankara must"do so in accordance with international law and obligations that they have."
On January 1, 200 academics from around the world signed a petition denouncing Turkey’s military operation against the Kurds. The document was branded "terrorist propaganda" by the Turkish government, and over 20 academics were detained by the Turkish authorities for signing it.
Reports of Turkish troops slaughtering scores of civilians trapped in the basements of Cizre first surfaced in February. A member of the Turkish parliament from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party accused the military of having "burned alive" around 150 people, while they were trapped in basements in different buildings.
"Some corpses were found without heads. Some were burned completely, so that autopsy is not possible," Feleknas Uca told Sputnik news agency, adding that "most" of those killed were Kurds. In his unverified report, the MP warned that more people could face a similar fate, as more than 200 remained trapped inside buildings across the region.
Prior to the Turkish MP's claims, the ANHA news agency reported the discovery of over a hundred bodies in the Sur and Cudi neighborhoods of Sirnak's Cizre district. DNA samples were taken from the victims to identify the bodies, as the corpses were so badly burned that relatives were only able to identify 10 of them, according to the report.
In February, the Turkish Human Rights Foundation said that since August 16, 2015 until February 5, 2016 at least 224 civilians (42 children, 31 women, 30 people over the age 60) lost their lives in the regions and during periods when curfews were officially declared. It added: “It is estimated that, according to the 2014 population census, at least 1,377,000 residents have been affected” by those curfews and the fundamental rights of those people “have been explicitly violated.”
Amnesty International reported in January that the Turkish military operation conducted under round-the-clock curfews was putting the lives of tens of thousands of people at risk and was “beginning to resemble collective punishment.”
“Cuts to water and electricity supplies combined with the dangers of accessing food and medical care while under fire are having a devastating effect on residents, and the situation is likely to get worse, fast, if this isn’t addressed,” said John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International’s director for Europe and Central Asia.
