JINHA

AMED – Activists from the women’s organization KJA condemned the killing of three Kurdish women politicians in the city of Silopi, in a statement in Diyarbakır. KJA coordination member Sara Aktaş said that the three women were killed for their leading role in the resistance.

SêvêDemir was member of the assembly of the political party Democratic Regions Party; PakizeNayır was co-chair of the People’s Assembly of Silopi; and KJA member FatmaUyar. The three women were targeted and slain Monday night in the Karşıyaka neighborhood of the town of Silopi in Şırnak province. Women’s organization KJA made a statement condemning the killing today in Diyarbakır. She compared the killing to the massacre of three Kurdish women politicians in Paris in January 2013.

“In 2013, three of our women friends were killed. Today, after three years, three of our women friends were brutally killed. All three of our comrades had dedicated her life to the Kurdish women’s struggle. They were killed because they rebelled against cruelty and the patriarchal mindset,” said Sara Aktaş, a member of KJA coordination. “We will not mourn. We will struggle at the highest level. They were killed for the honorable position they took. We will take their flag of resistance and escalate our struggle with the highest level of radical actions.

“The forces of darkness can tear up one, two, three flowers,” said Sara. “But they can’t stop spring from coming.”

Selma Irmak, co-chair of the organization Democratic Society Congress, called on women above all to raise their voices against the attacks on the Kurdish people. She said that there was a decree for the massacre of the Kurdish people and that the killing of women was at the top of the agenda for this program.

Selma noted that Sêvê’s last words were “resistance is life.”

“These words have become our cry,” said Selma. “We will not abandon our search for truth and we will be the leaders of resistance. We never surrendered to power and we will not surrender. We will not surrender to the Daesh mindset, to colonizers, to the state or to Daesh. Today, we will resist—like Sêvê, Fatma, Pakize, Sara, Ronahi, Rojbin, Zilan, Sema, Beritan, Kader, Sibel, Arin.

“We are making a call to all women, tosay that the Mirabel sisters were killed once more, in Silopi. The Paris massacre occurred once more in Silopi. And Arin was killed once again in Kobani,” said Selma. “We are speaking to Kurdish women, to Armenian, Assyrian, Azeri, Circassian women, to all women around the world. Come, raise the flag of women.”

(be-ny/gc/cm)