Kongra Star confirms that the martyrs are revolutionary and therefore targeted

Kongra Star in Aleppo City commemorated the martyrs of Hilinj massacre on their 1st anniversary, saying through a statement that "the martyrs represented revolutionary figures and played an active role for women's freedom in Rojava (Western Kurdistan), so they were targeted."

23 June, 2021 08:40

ALEPPO

On June 23^rd, Turkish aircraft targeted a house in Hilinj village, Kobani, which resulted in the martyrdom of two members of the Kongra Star coordination, Zahra and Haboun, the owner of the house mother Amina also was targeted.

The statement was delivered in the front of Kongra Star Center in the western neighborhood of Sheikh Maqsoud ,in both languages, Kurdish language by the co-chair of the General Council of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiya neighborhoods, Valentina Abdo, and in Arabic language by a member of the Kongra Star Farjin Mohammed.

The statement condemned the violations and crimes committed by the Turkish Government against areas of north and east Syria, the targeting of women and the attack that resulted in the martyrdom of women members of the Kongra Star who fought for the organization and liberation of society and women in Hilinj.

The statement commemorated the martyr Sema Yûce, who was detained in Çankakkale Prison and was martyred on June 17^th, 1997, and saluted the resistance of the hunger strike over 200 days ago in protest against the severe isolation imposed on leader Ocalan.

The statement said: Zahra Berkel represented the revolutionary figure and played an active role for women's freedom. She chose the resistance line to bring all women to their freedom. Haboun Khalil was in the front row of the organization work at the Kongra Star and was responsible and involved in the fight against ISIS/ Daesh, which was supported by Turkish Government, and Mother Amina Wiese played a role in the struggle of women throughout Rojava (Western Kurdistan), they were therefore targeted by the dark hands that stood in front of the free will of women, who went after the thought of leader Abo, who gave her a role in the Syrian arena in determining her course and organizing herself in the revolution in all military, political, social, economic and organizational aspects. "

It added, "History bears witness to the crimes committed against women. For example, the Mirabel and Sarah sisters, Ronahi, Leyla, Fidan, Mother Akida, Gulê Salmo, Fatima Haji, Havrin Khalaf, Hind, Saada, Deniz and many others, these assassinations are a systematic policy of undermining the power and will of organized women, especially political women, behind which the world order stands the hands of the Turkish State. "

It added: "We are at the Kongra Star and on behalf the women of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiya neighborhoods, and the women of north and east Syria, and in response to these attacks, we insist on our struggle for freedom with an organized stance and women's policy."

It also condemned the "silence of freedom States and human and women's rights organizations on these brutal practices" and called for the accountability of "all parties who commit inhuman crimes against women."

It pledged to maintain "the march of dignity and struggle for the unification of the four parts of Kurdistan and the breaking of the constraints of Imarli Prison."

The statement ended with the chanting of slogans glorifying the martyrs of freedom.

T/S

ANHA