BEHDINAN – In a written statement, the KJK Coordination commemorated the resistance fighters who were martyred in May and stated that Leyla Qasim and Şirin Elemhuli, who were executed in May in different years, are “unique female comrades who made May a month of value with their lives and tremendous resistance.”
THE LEGACY OF COMRADES
KJK’s statement is as follows:
May is a month in which resistance and struggle are packed into every day with the martyrdom of dozens of valuable comrades. Therefore, May is the month when our social values are always alive and strong in the person of these comrades, and our reasons for struggle always renew themselves. As women, we have come to these days by inheriting our strength of struggle, which spread throughout Kurdistan, the Middle East and the world, from these valuable comrades, and our future will develop by expanding the legacy of these comrades. Leyla Qasim and Şirin Elemhuli were also among the unique female comrades who made May a month of value with their lives and tremendous resistance.
LEYLA QASIM, KURDISH RESISTANCE CRY AGAINST THE DICTATOR
While Leyla Qasim was a student at Baghdad University, she and a group of her friends were preparing to retaliate against this massacre, after the Iraqi BAAS regime bombed Qeladize on April 24, 1974 and massacred many Kurds. Patriotic feelings are Leyla Qasim’s conscience that does not remain silent in the face of these massacres. However, she was captured while she was preparing for the action, and despite the brutal torture she suffered, the Kurdish woman left her name written as a woman who did not keep secrets in our history of resistance and was executed on May 13, 1974, along with her 4 friends. Leyla Qasim became the cry of resistance of free Kurds against the dictator Saddam regime. She, as a woman, lived with the awareness that the free country is more valuable than the school she studied and the individual life, and she gave her answer by resisting the enemy who said she would get rid of it if she regretted it.
A militant woman like Leyla Qasim lived in these lands. All women in Bashurê Kurdistan should inherit this resistance for themselves, just as Leyla Qasim did not remain indifferent and resisted against the invading and colonialist Saddam regime and the massacres she committed in Kurdistan, today this patriotic duty rests on the shoulders of all women from Bashurê Kurdistan. All women in Bashure Kurdistan should first of all work for the neglected rights, freedoms and national unity of women, and raise their struggle against the invasion attacks against all of Kurdistan, especially Bashure Kurdistan, and the betrayal that supports these attacks. Leyla Qasim with her honorable struggle From Bashur to Bakur, from Rojava to Rojhilat, it is the name of a tradition of resistance and patriotism that has managed to become the name of girls in four parts of Kurdistan.
ŞİRİN ELEMHULİ, THE FIRST FEMALE RESISTANCE EXECUTED IN THE WOMEN’S FREEDOM MOVEMENT
Friend Shirin Elemhuli, on the other hand, was imprisoned while she was lighting the women and the people with the fire of freedom in Iran, where it is common for women to even breathe and policies of denial and annihilation against the Kurds are in effect. Just like Leyla Qasim, she, as one of the strongest heirs of the Kurdish women’s tradition of resistance, resisted the most severe torture, and was executed on 9 May 2010 along with Ferzad Kemanger, Ali Haydarian and Farhad Wekili on the grounds that they were members of PJAK. The woman, who started with Şirin Elomholi friend Önder APO, took her place as the first woman to be executed in our history of freedom.
JIN JIYAN AZADI
We, as the Kurdish women’s movement, have experienced in our history of struggle that no development or resistance is spontaneous. In this sense, every resistance has a history and tradition that it inherited. The serhildans that started today for Jina Emini, who was killed by the Iranian morality police on the grounds that her hair was showing, undoubtedly inherited the resistance tradition of this river, which carries the love of freedom of Sirin friend. The slogan ‘Jin Jiyan Azadi’, written by the cute friend on the dungeon walls, grew like an avalanche in these serhildans and proved its magic to the whole world.
But in Iran, fearful of the power of this magic formula, the death penalty continues to increase, and tens of thousands of people, including artists, journalists, activists and student women, are imprisoned in prisons. Again, thousands of young people, especially female students, are poisoned in public schools and dormitories, trying to break their resistance and will, and reactionary laws against girls are enacted. Instead of the guidance patrols, it is decided that women will be watched with cameras for 24 hours and those who do not act in accordance with the law will be detected and punished in this way. There is no doubt that every camera is a state mind, which is no different from a male dominated mentality for women and a policeman, and is tried to spread to all cells of society. Continuing serhildans and conflicts all women, While it has turned into a crisis that deeply affects the youth and the peoples, and has become a burden that cannot be carried on the shoulders of the entire society from 7 to 70, so to speak, the Iranian state has tried to solve all these problems by executing, imprisoning, murdering, suppressing, ignoring and postponing them or with a few minor reforms. it’s working. It is based on the same policy abroad as it is at home, and it maintains alliances on the basis of opposition to the revolution. The slogan of `Jin Jiyan Azadi`, which is the cry for new life, insists on its old policy against all women and youth spread all over the world. It is based on the same policy abroad as it is at home, and it maintains alliances on the basis of opposition to the revolution. The slogan of `Jin Jiyan Azadi`, which is the cry for new life, insists on its old policy against all women and youth spread all over the world. It is based on the same policy abroad as it is at home, and it maintains alliances on the basis of opposition to the revolution. The slogan of `Jin Jiyan Azadi`, which is the cry for new life, insists on its old policy against all women and youth spread all over the world.
A CONFEDERALIST SYSTEM IS NEEDED
Just as in 1978, all Iranian peoples and Kurds rose up against the shah’s regime, but the mullah regime seized the people’s revolution, and the revolutionary forces were forced to submit to this authority unconditionally, so today in Rojhilat and Iran, the thirst for freedom of women and young people trying to distort the revolution is expressed. Women need to be sensitive to the regime that only portrays it as an issue of hijab. All women in Iran and Rojhilat must work for the revolution to take place in all cells of the social sphere. For this reason, there is a need for a democratic confederal system that includes all peoples in Iran and Rojhilat, where women can participate in all social fabrics with their own color. Women should develop communes and assemblies that are self-governing, based on the self-power of women and all Iranian peoples, by organizing this revolution that starts in their minds,
We, in the person of Leyla Qasim, who was executed by the Baath regime in Iraq, and Şirin Elemhuli, who was executed by the Iranian state, commemorate all comrades who died at the expense of their lives in establishing a democratic, just and equal world and a new life in a free Kurdistan, with respect and love. We reiterate our promise to upgrade. With the fact that we have inherited the struggle we are waging today from these resistance women comrades, we call on all women to expand our move and walk stronger towards the future, ‘Bi Jin Jiyan Azadî re ber bi Şoreşa jinê’.”
