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 | Turkey's wedding massacre puts militias in spotlight |
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60? "60px": "auto" ); height:expression(do*****ent.body.clientHeight > 60? "60px": "auto" );' onload=this.style.filter='progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(color=#000000,direction=135,strength=5)'>By Seyhmus Cakan Reuters Wednesday, May 6, 2009; 7:30 AM DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Eight men arrested over a wedding massacre were all members of state-backed "Village Guard" units set up to help the army combat Kurdish separatists in Turkey's southeast, officials said on Wednesday. Involvement of village guards in the worst mass killing in modern Turkish history raises pressure on the EU-candidate country to rein in the heavily armed units. Human rights groups have long accused them of illegal killings and drug trafficking, but the army lauds their role in combating Kurdish rebels. Monday's attack, in which masked men with assault rifles and grenades killed 44 at a wedding in the largely Kurdish south- east, demonstrated for some the danger of arming such informal units in an area known for family blood feuds and vendettas. "If these people committed this massacre with guns the state gave them it would be time to reconsider the village guard system," Rustem Erkan, head of the sociology department at Diyarbakir's Dicle University told the Hurriyet Daily News. "The massacre reveals to what extent the village guards system has been turned into a murder network," Emine Ayna, vice president of the Democratic Society Party (DTP), Turkey's only legal Kurdish party, told Sabah daily. There are around 57,000 village guards throughout Turkey's southeast, part of a policy established in 1985 to set...
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