JINHA

 QAMIŞLO – Rojava officials and everyday citizens have visited the dozens of citizens wounded in the bombing on Hesekê Newroz celebrations to show solidarity, give blood and recover their strength.

 The canton of Cizîrê is in three days of official mourning after two simultaneous Daesh bombing attacks on Newroz celebrations in the city of Hesekê on Friday killed at least 42 civilians, most of them women and children.

 A delegation of officials from the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and umbrella organization of grassroots democratic groups TEV-DEM, along with Court of Human Rights members, visited the hospitalized wounded recently.

 Semira Ahmet is a citizen who joined a group coming to give blood, in response to the urgent need for blood after the attack. She said the group came to show solidarity with the wounded and their families. She sent her condolences to those who lost loved ones in the attack.

 Mahmut Xidir, currently hospitalized and recovering from his wounds sustained in the bombing, said asayiş peacekeeping forces and peshmerga present that day intervened immediately, but many women and children were lost.

 "We will get revenge for this massacre," he said. "No one can break the fraternity of peoples."

 Welida Hesen, a member of the Court of Human Rights in Rojava who visited those wounded in the Hesekê Newroz bombings, says the continuing democratic struggle of the people of Rojava will constitute revenge for the bombings. She said that the attack was designed to break the will of the Kurdish people and the peoples of Hesekê. She noted that most of the victims were women and children—a response to the power of women in the project of building a new life in the Rojava cantons.

 "This attack is an attempt to refuse women's freedom," she said. "But our answer will be our success in our continuing struggle."

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