CENTRAL NEWS
Turkish Armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (SIHA) attacked the Maxmur Refugee Camp in southern Kurdistan at 13:10 local time yesterday, killing three women who had been milking their sheep.
Two of the three women, named Eyşê Ehmed Ferhan, Ezîme Akdogan and Hewa Akdogan, were immortalised directly at the scene of the attack while another later lost her life after her injuries were not able to be treated due to the lack of medical supplies caused by the embargo being imposed on the camp since July 2019.
Masses joined the funeral procession from the hospital to the cemetery of martyrs. Speaking here, Nuran Sezgin on behalf of Maxmur Democratic People’s Council strongly condemned the attack and the silence of the United Nations, the Iraqi government and Federal Kurdistan region in the face of the Turkish state’s never-ending attacks.
Sezgin remarked that the aim of the attacks is to divide the Kurds and highlighted the urgent need for Kurdish national unity in response to the annihilation and denial policy directed against the Kurdish people.
After the speeches, the three women were laid to rest under slogans “Şehid Namirin” [Martyrs are immortal] and “Bijî Serok Apo” [Long live leader Öcalan
