TEV-DEM calls for more cohesion on anniversary of 2004 Qamishlo uprising

Today, the Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) issued a statement to the public, recalling the March 12 Qamishlo uprising, which read:
"21 years have passed since that painful day when the former Syrian regime and the chauvinists tried to kill the will of our Kurdish people and strike them preemptively, fearing the escalation of Kurdish national awareness following the developments that took place in Iraq and Kurdistan and the fall of the Baghdad regime in 2003. Like all chauvinist and racist regimes that live on crises and the blood of peoples, he worked to ignite Kurdish-Arab strife and flood Rojava and eastern Syria with the blood of its Kurdish and Arab sons, especially after the reaction of our people turned into an uprising that spread throughout the Kurdish regions and Syria, and shook the throne of racists and chauvinists who shed the blood of our people, and more than 38 martyrs and thousands of detainees fell.
However, the awareness of some Arab and Kurdish tribes and the resistance of our people thwarted the racist plan to which some racist forces and the Turkish fascist state contributed, along with the Syrian regime, especially after the notorious Adana Agreement of 1998 against the Kurdistan Freedom Movement and the Kurdish people.
The twelfth of March 2004 was a major turning point in the method of struggle of our people, and a pillar of the developments that followed, the most important of which was the Syrian people's breaking the barrier of fear and their exit in 2011 against the former regime, inspired by the boldness of the Qamishlo uprising (Rojava).
In addition, this uprising turned into a ground for the launch of the nineteenth of July 2012 revolution, which transformed the diversity of cultures and components in NE Syria from cultures and components that the regime has long worked to make conflicting and hostile and the nucleus of its continued hegemony and racist mentality, to cohesion, solidarity and spreading the culture of brotherhood of peoples, tolerance and social justice, which turned into a nucleus for building democratic Autonomous-administration and building a free democratic society, and steadfastness in the face of all policies, attacks and conspiracies against the people of NE Syria.
It is worth mentioning that the Democratic Society Movement (TEV-DEM) had a leading role in representing the Twelfth of March Uprising and transforming its sacrifices and lessons into solid foundations for building a free democratic society, by spreading the principle of brotherhood of peoples, achieving community cohesion and women's freedom, thus preserving civil peace and the solidarity of all components, Arabs, Kurds, Syriacs and Assyrians, thus laying the foundations for building a democratic Autonomous-Administration in NE Syria. Just as women played the most prominent role in the March 12 uprising, they played a vanguard role in the achievements in NE Syria, as a continuation of that legacy in 2004, but through organization, awareness and free will inspired by the thought of the leader Abdullah Ocalan.
We, in the Democratic Society Movement (TEV-DEM), while remembering that glorious uprising on its twenty-first anniversary, and boowing in honor of its martyrs and the sacrifices of our people, we, in the spirit of that uprising, call on our people in NE Syria with all its components to more cohesion and solidarity around the achievements of the twelfth of March, including the Democratic Autonomous Administration and the Syrian Democratic Forces, and to achieve real national unity among all Kurdish and democratic political forces throughout Syria, in order to preserve the gains of the martyrs, and to build a democratic, pluralistic, and decentralized homeland, and free democracy for all its children and groups, especially women, the pillar of building a free democratic society.
Shame on the racist and chauvinist forces that prepared and implemented the conspiracy, and who are still seeking to eliminate the gains of our people that came as a result of the sacrifices of the martyrs of the twelfth of March and the glorious revolution of the nineteenth of July."

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ANHA