We salute the resistance and struggle of the Êzîdî women who stretched out for the sun against the darkness of death Seven years have passed since 3 August 2014 when the barbaric IS gangs carried out a massacre against the Kurdish Êzîdî people in Shengal.

BASINA VE KAUOYUNA

We salute the resistance and struggle of the Êzîdî women who stretched out for the sun against the darkness of death Seven years have passed since 3 August 2014 when the barbaric IS gangs carried out a massacre against the Kurdish Êzîdî people in Shengal. In this genocide which went down in the massacre filled history of the ancient Êzîdî people as the 73rd firman, five thousand people including women, children and elderly were slaughtered and hundreds of thousands were forced to leave their homes and lands. In this massacre which took place before the eyes of the entire world, there was a feminicide. Êzîdî women suffered systematic sexual torture, they were enslaved as ‘spoils of war’ and ‘sold’ to men in slave markets. Êzidî women who organized women’s will through women’s assemblies became a source of hope for the peoples of the world with oppressed women in the forefront. Those who wanted to kill this hope planned to submit the will of Kurdish women who are writing women’s history of resistance and struggle in the Middle East. They murdered Hevrîn Xelef, Zehra Berkel, Hebûn Mela Xelil, Emine Weysi and many other revolutionary women whom we cannot name one by one. As known, the International Êzidî Women’s Conference held in Germany on 11-12 March 2017 underlined the need to carry out effective international struggle to free Êzidî women held by IS and decided to address 3 August as “International Day of Action Against Feminicide and Genocide” . The European Parliament recognized the “Êzîdî Genocide” and international institutions wrote reports putting the massacre in the context of “crimes against humanity”. However the government in Turkey, let alone recognize genocide, has not even condemned the massacre in Shengal to this date. We wish to underline the following loud and strong. We reiterate our call to declare 3 August as “International Day of Action Against Feminicide and Genocide” and salute the resistance and struggle of the Êzîdî women who stretched out for the sun against the darkness of death. You can do anything but you can never kill the sun because in Shengal woman is JÎN.

03.08. 2021

(TJA) Tevgera Jinên Azad