ARMENIAN CEMETERY FOUND IN VAN

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ARMENIAN CEMETERY FOUND IN VAN

15:00, 3 October, 2013

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 3, ARMENPRESS: During the construction of a school in
Gevash (historical Vostan) Province of Van a mass cemetery was found,
where skulls and bones came out of the soil surface. As reported
by Armenpress, quoting the Turkish news website haberx.com, these
skulls and bones have been found a year ago and still remain in the
construction site. The website states that the schoolchildren are
scared and avoid of going to school. One of the teachers quit the
teaching in that school because of the bones.

One of the inhabitants of the Province note that these bones might
belong to the Armenians, who had been massacred during the Armenian
Genocide in 1915. He said that it is unacceptable to educate children
in such a school. "A mass massacre occurred here. The skulls show
that these people were tortured and buried one on the other", -
said the representative of the Gevash Province.

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Mass Grave found near Van likely that of the Armenians

11:38 05.10.2013

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Skulls and bones, possibly from the Armenian Genocide, protrude from the soil near a school in the district of Westan in Van, according to a newspaper report.

The pro-Kurdish Ozgur Gundem reported that in the village of Ili in the district of Westan (current name Gevaş), a mass grave believed to be from the Armenian genocide has been unearthed during the construction of the Dağyöre Elementary School last year.

The bones remain there, protruding from the soil, to this day. Villagers say the mass grave is likely that of the Armenians who lived in the village a century ago, the Armenian Weekly reports.

The village, Ili (current name Dağyöre), southwest of Gevaş (Armenian name Vosdan), had 21 Armenian households prior to the Armenian Genocide.