Women’s organizations in North-East Syria announced their participation in the KJK campaign from 3 to 15 August on the occasion of the anniversary of the Shengal Massacre on 3 August and the Taliban's seizure of power in Afghanistan on 15 August.
The Kurdistan Women's Communities (KJK) Coordination announced on July 9 that they would run a campaign from 3 to 15 August on the occasion of the anniversary of the Shengal Massacre on 3 August and the Taliban's seizure of power in Afghanistan on 15 August. The campaign is organized under the slogan "We Stand with Afghan and Shengal women against the attacks of hegemonic men".
Women’s organizations in North-East Syria announced their participation in the KJK campaign at a press conference in Qamishlo on Monday.
The press statement was read by Rihan Loqo, Spokesperson of Kongra Star, the women’s umbrella organization in North-East Syria.
Referring to the ISIS onslaught in Shengal 9 years ago, the statement said that the genocide perpetrated by ISIS in Shengal on 3 August 2014 was watched by the whole world and not intervened. “In front of the very eyes of the world, thousands of people were brutally murdered, while thousands of women and children were kidnapped, sold in slave markets and subjected to psychological, cultural, physical and sexual attacks,” it said.
Remarking that women in Afghanistan are in the grip of a similar onslaught and massacre, the statement said: “The Taliban, which gradually secured its control of the country after the withdrawal of US troops starting from 29 April 2021, seized the capital Cabul in August 2021 and once again declared its misogynist rulership, targeting the identity and existence of women.”
The women’s organizations commemorated the martyrs of resistance in Shengal and Afghanistan under the motto “We produce life against femicide”. The statement stressed that women in Shengal and Afghanistan found hope with the women’s revolution in Rojava and North-East Syria, vowing to answer this hope and demand with all their might.
The activities to be carried out in the scope of the campaign were listed as follows:
Activities will be organized across North-East Syria.
Candles will be lit everywhere on August 2.
Women’s organizations and movements will organize a forum in Raqqa on August 7.
Protest demonstrations will be organized on August 10.
Screening about the Shengal massacre will be organized in parks.
