JINHA

AMED – The Congress of Free Women (KJA) called the recent abduction of 350 mainly women and children members of the Assyrian people "an attack against all women and all humanity."

On February 24, Daesh gangs attacked 35 Assyrian and Syriac villages on the banks of the Khabur River, a tributary of the Euphrates near Al-Hasakah in Syria.

Said the KJA of the attack: "It is a simple example of the fact that patriarchy is an enemy of women. It is genocide. It is femicide. We call on all humanity to stand with this oppressed people and these women against the attack."

The gang members also attacked historic churches and cultural works. "With its anti-human values, Daesh is looting culture and history through the occupation, seizure and removal of a people from their homeland in the Middle East's most ancient soil."

Pointing out that Daesh had realized these genocidal attacks before through the abduction, rape and selling of Êzîdî women, the KJA called on international opinion and especially women to oppose the attack and stand with the abducted Assyrians.

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