sivas massacre02 Jul 2021
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SIVAS MASSACRE
On July 2nd 1993, during the second day of the Pir Sultan
Abdal Cultural Festival in Sivas, Turkey, a crowd of thousands
of radical Islamic members assembled after their Friday
prayers, to protest against the festival.
Upon surrounding the hotel, where the festival participants
were staying, the protesters burn the hotel and 37 people
lost their lives in the fire set by Islamic militants.
Of those who died, two were from among the protesters and
another two were from hotel personnel. The rest of the 33
killed, including a Dutch female anthropologist, took their
place in the line of martyrdom for Alevis.
The state of Turkey is behind this massacre. All suspicious
murderers were pardoned after the judicial process was
timed in 2014.
BRITISH ALEVI FEDERATION
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