The Balance Of The War In Kurdi

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Mon Jan 30 20:03:08 GMT 1995


From: newsdesk at newsdesk.aps.nl (Newsdesk Amsterdam)
Subject: Re: The Balance Of The War In Kurdistan
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KURD-A Special Report
January 15, 1995


The Balance Of The War In Kurdistan: More Than 35,000 Dead Since
1984

     Over the last few weeks, KURD-A carried out research to
discover the "balance" of the war in Kurdistan. In addition to
information from their own correspondents, KURD-A also utilized
data from the daily newspaper Ozgur Ulke, reports from the
Turkish human rights association IHD, as well as statistics
compiled by the Kurdish liberation front ERNK.
     Since 1984, the beginning of the armed struggle of the PKK,
the war-like confrontation between the Turkish government and the
army on the one side and the ARGK, the Kurdish guerrilla army of
the PKK, on the other has reached an unprecedented level of
intensity, one which is not reflected in German-language media
reports. According to KURD-A's research, between 35,000 and
37,000 people have died since 1984.
     A total of 11,000 armed confrontations have taken place
since 1984. In these battles, approximately 26,000 Turkish
soldiers and other members of the security forces were killed, as
were approximately 3,500 ARGK guerrillas. Between 5,000 and 7,000
civilians in Kurdistan have also died. The actual number of
civilians killed is difficult to calculate, since more than 2
million people have become refugees and more than 2,500 villages
have been destroyed during the last two years alone.
     It is during these last two years that the "fatality
statistics" most accurately illustrate the increasingly dramatic
war situation in Kurdistan. Whereas last week the governor of the
provinces under emergency rule, in contrast to government figures
from Ankara, spoke of more than 9,000 dead in 1994 alone, KURD-A
has received information which indicates that 11,000 Turkish
soldiers and members of the security forces and 1,300 guerrillas
were killed during that time period.


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