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    DERSIM NATIVES FILE COMPLAINT AT ICC

    tert.am
    26.11.12

    Dersim natives residing in Europe have filed a criminal complaint
    against those who are responsible for the bloody incidents in the
    predominantly Alevi region of Dersim, now called Tunceli, in the
    early years of the Republic of Turkey, in the Prosecutor's Office in
    the International Criminal Court (ICC) located in The Hague.

    The Dersim natives, who currently reside in Germany, France, Belgium
    and Holland, walked to the court on Friday, carrying placards that
    read, "We want justice for Dersim genocide," and handed over the
    300-page criminal complaint, Turkish Today's Zaman reports.

    Speaking to reporters about the issue, lawyer Erdal Dogan said they
    won't settle with the complaint and will go to the United Nations
    Human Rights Council as well.

    "This court tries crimes against humanity and genocide. Our Prime
    Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan apologized, saying that what happened in
    Dersim was a planned massacre. But he failed to do what is necessary
    -- because the massacre carried out in 1937-1938 was to Turkify the
    land and eliminate the land's Alevi identity," he added.

    It is estimated that as many as 70,000 Kurdish Alevis were killed in
    Dersim between 1937 and 1938.

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