JINHA

WAN - While the AKP government has demolished and flattened the cities with war policies carried out for one year, it has also forced the people to displace like they did in 1990s. Women, meanwhile, said, "We left our homes and lands in 1990s. We won't leave our lands even if they kill us. We'll end this war."

Oppressions, evacuation of villages, displacement and executions, which began to be imposed in 1990s in Kurdistan, have continued repeatedly today. As the most affected by this war, women and children, stated that they don't want to return to the old years, they demand this war be ended right away. One of these women, Sise Nişo, said that the AKP government has maintained the war policy that it has carried out on Kurdish people for years. She said, "The state has imposed pressure on Kurdish people since I was born. They want to annihilate us. We came to the cities by leaving our villages in 1990s due to the war. Now, they want to displace us again with ongoing war. While we don't want anyone to die, they kill us in the streets and conduct raids on our homes."

Displaced from her village, Feleknaz Çintan (89) reminded the ongoing state's annihilation policies towards Kurdish people, she said, "I had been forced to leave my village in 1990s. We had sold all our animals due to the state's oppression. They had burned our homes in front of us. When we told them we didn't want to leave our village, they took our children in order to blackmail us into leaving our village. They wouldn't give us our children back if we didn't leave. We had to leave our village for our children."

Feleknaz noted that as the state's war policies towards Kurdish people have continued by bringing Cizre, Şırnak, nusaybin and Yüksekova into ruin and forcing people to leave their lands. Feleknaz said, "Again they want to annihilate us. They have burned the people alive in the basements like they killed us in the old times. We left our lands and villages in 1990s. But, we won't leave that time even if they kill us. The end of the state will be same with Saddam."

Tülay Aksoy, who describe the state as "tyrant", said, "The state is the same state. It never changes. It has been trying to annihilate us for years; however, it cannot annihilate us. We, as women, will end this war by organizing. We kept silent so we experienced that. We didn't know anything. But, Kurdish people have become conscious and we will never accept the atrocity. We'll protect our people to the end.

"The people will rebuild their cities. They couldn't annihilate us with their tanks and bombs. Let's protect ourselves to shout the peace."

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