NEWS CENTER – Yesterday, August 03, commemorates the massacre that took place in 2014 by the gangs of IS against the Yêzidi population in Şengal.
DIRTY PLANS AND BETRAYAL
The Yêzidi were left defenseless to the gangs by the KDP and the state organs, but the guerrillas came to their aid and prevented an even greater scale of the massacre, with their sacrifice. Today, the forces of the KDP are not ashamed to commemorate the massacre of the Yêzidi and to present themselves again as the voice of the Yêzidi. However, the Yêzidi people in Şengal know exactly who betrayed and deceived them. The peshmerga who were responsible for their protection left without firing even one bullet against the IS gangs, they ran away without handing out even one weapon to the population for self-defense.
There are dirty plans behind this cruel and brutal attack, they were not random but planned and this must be exposed.
EMERGED WITH STRENGTH DESPITE GENOCIDE
Nevertheless, the Yêzidi population has emerged from the 73rd genocide with new strength, has its own self-defense units and is building its own self-government structures to live with its own identity, culture, religion and language. Because the êzidi population, especially after the last massacre, has recognized the importance of organizing themselves within their own political self-government and their own self-defense units in order to protect their own existence and identity, they are today again and again the target of attacks by the Turkish occupying state, which thereby wants to complete the annihilation plans of the IS gangs. Especially those who fought heroically against the IS and liberated Şengal were and are targeted by the drones of the Turkish occupying state. Especially Şengal’s leaders became underhanded targets of the Turkish occupiers, such as Şehid Mam Zekî, Zerdeşt Şengalî, Said Hassan and Marwan Badal Haji.
By continuing their struggle and resistance, the êzidi people show how much they are connected to their fallen leaders and revolutionary fighters and by fulfilling their goals, they are following in their footsteps that left such a great and important legacy to their Yêzidi people.
Especially the Yêzidi mothers show their deep attachment to their martyrs and to Rêber Apo, stand in the front of all actions and express their anger and hatred towards the attacks and occupation. Their radical stance is based on the ideas and philosophy of Rêber Apo, which they came to know and appreciate at the latest with the liberation struggle of the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla for Şengal. With these mothers, a new society was created in Şengal, fighting for their rights and their freedom and deeply impressing the whole world with their resistance.
DIRTY WAR CONTINUES
The effects of the massacre in Şengal are still felt and visible today. Thousands of Yêzidi women are still in the clutches of IS gangs, many Yêzidi families are in refugee shelters spread in the south of Kurdistan and they are prevented from returning to their sacred homeland and fall into the clutches of dirty special war methods. Especially the governments in the south of Kurdistan try to present Şengal as an insecure region and present themselves as the defenders and voices of the Yêzidi people. As proof, they cite the countless families who live in the refugee camps in southern Kurdistan to this day. But they conceal the fact that it is they themselves who are preventing the families from returning to their sacred homeland, to their protective mountain Şengal.
To this day, a large part of the Yêzidi community lives in other European countries, as they tried to protect their existence through the thousands of years of massacres in Europe. But also in Europe they are exposed to massive attacks of assimilation and alienation from their own culture, language and religion.
Many young Yêzidi in Europe do not know their language, nor their religion, many have never seen their homeland.
IMPORTANCE OF THE RECOGNITION OF THE MASSACRE
It is more important than ever to protect and defend the Yezidi people, who are one of the oldest, if not the oldest people in the history of mankind, who have preserved their existence until today, and to recognize their rights to live freely with their own language, culture and identity. Whether in Europe, in Kurdistan or in other parts of the world, it is necessary to jointly recognize the massacre as genocide, to prosecute and punish the perpetrators, especially those behind the attacks of the IS gangs, and to prevent further massacres in the future by recognizing, accepting and supporting the legitimate self-government and self-defense of the Yêzidi community in Şengal.
The resistance for Şengal must be increased and the first steps started in some European governments by recognizing the 73rd genocide must be expanded and strengthened. It is the duty and task of all humanity to protect this ancient people and thus defend their history, the history of humanity, and not allow capitalist modernity, fascism or other reactionary and regressive forces to attack and destroy this sacred people.
