BOLIVIA – In a video, the Martyr’s Genealogy Committee Tolhildan gave a message on the anniversary of the Yezidi Genocide. At the beginning of the message, the committee stated that the patriarchal system attacks communities, especially women, everywhere in the world in the form of special and physical warfare, and continues as follows:
“Today, August 3, from the Genealogy Camp of Martyr Tolhildan Raman, we are the Yezidi people and they especially remember the women who faced one of the biggest genocides of the modern era. 8 years ago, in 2014, ISIS mercenaries entered Shengal and killed thousands of people, as well as kidnapped more than 5000 Yezidi women and sold them as slaves. After a year, the people resisted alongside the PKK guerrillas and established their own administration. Also, women played an important role in this resistance.
Today, some women were rescued by other Yezidi women and took responsibility for their society and people. We promise not to forget the women who are still missing. We attach importance to self-organization. The struggle of the Yezidi people and women gives strength to our resistance and struggle against feminism and fascism.
From the Basque country to Sinjar, Long live the resistance of Sinjar.”
The meaning of the Whipala Flag (The one in the left):
- Red: the planet Earth (aka pacha) It is the expression of the Andean man, the intellectual development and the cosmic philosophy
- Orange: it represents society and culture. It is the expression of culture, conservation and procreation of the human species; it is health and medicine, it is youth education.
- Yellow: it is the expression of energy and strength (cha’ama pacha), of moral principles, it is the doctrine of duality (chacha Wami), it is Pachakama and Pachamama; the set of laws and regulations to follow such as brotherhood and human solidarity.
- White: it means time and dialectics (Jaya Pacha), the development of science and technology, arts, intellectual and manual work that generates reciprocity and harmony within the structure of the community
- Green: the color of hope that represents the economy and production of the Andes, the natural resources of the soil and the subsoil, the flora and fauna
- Blue: cosmic space, the infinite (araxa pacha), is the expression of star systems and natural phenomena
- Violet: it is the color of harmony; therefore, it represents Andean politics and ideology. The good administration of the state as a superior instance, of social, economic and cultural organizations aimed at obtaining benefits for all.
