Per press statement released by Cumartesi İnsanları and the articles published in various newspapers, Ömer Güven migrated from his native village, Deştalela in Şırnak to the Cizre district in 1986 due to increasing pressure from the security officials, who insisted that he serve as a village guard. He opened a store in Cizre. However, house raids and death threats by security officials continued. On the evening of 26th February 1993, Ömer and his friend, Cemal Özkurt, left their shops in Ömer’s car to go back home. However, they did not come back home. The following day, Ömer’s family found his burnt down Renault car on a small, distant road away from the main highway. There were 21 empty shells around the car. The traces indicated that two men had been first shot to death and then the car was burnt down with the two bodies inside.

Years later, the gun was identified as belonging to O.A., a village guard, who had enlisted for service voluntarily in 1994. The guards was taken into custody but he said that the gun belonged to another village guard, H.D.. On 25th June 2007 O.A. committed suicide. In his suicide letter, he wrote that he had never used the gun in any criminal act, adding that he bought the gun from H.D., unaware of its previous criminal record. In his letter, O.A. also said that he killed himself fearing that H.D. could harm his family and H.D. was responsible of his decision to commit suicide. Years later, H.D. was arrested for the murder of Musa Anter, a famed Kurdish journalist and poet.