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JINA MAHSA AMINI
The face of Iran's protests. Her life, her dreams
and her death.
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Read all about the assasination of the 22 year young Jhina Mahsa
Amini or Zhina Mahsa Amini (Kurdistan-Iran) and the Zan,
zendagi, Azadi (Women, life, freedom) revolution in Iran
2022
and the ZZA Revolution per month:
May--April--March--Feb--Jan
2023
covering
the period of the 'Women Life Freedom' revolution in 2023 and
with links to the period of the murdering of Jina Mahsa Amini on September 2022
'till December 2022..
updated 6 May 2023
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'TO WEAR OR NOT TO WEAR A HIJAB i.e. TO BE OR NOT TO BE A FREE WOMAN' Updated
MAY 2023:
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NEW: May - April 2023 - 'IRANIAN JOURNALISTS UNDER SIEGE' |
UPDATES: LINKS 2 'Blinding as a weapon' (menu to the right) AND
'Biological terror attacks' (menu to the left) go here:
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Gino d'Artali
Indept investigative journalist
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When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da
qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so
called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.
Iranwire - May 9, 2023
<<Violence Reported as Iranian Teachers Protest across the Country
Iranian security forces violently dispersed a protest rally in the
Kurdish town of Sanandaj as teachers held demonstrations in multiple
cities across the country. The Coordinating Council of Teachers' Union
had called for rallies outside the parliament building in Tehran and in
front of the education departments in cities across Iran on May 9. The
council published a list of demands, including providing high-quality
education and security in schools, <especially for female students,> and
the <unconditional release of all teachers' rights activists in
detention.> Security forces were deployed in some education departments
to prevent gatherings, and there have been reports of internet outages
and disruptions in some cities.
According to a video obtained by IranWire, security agents attacked
teachers who had gathered in the streets of Sanandaj, the provincial
capital of western Kurdistan province, chanting slogans such as <Woman,
Life, Freedom> and <Free imprisoned teachers.> Another footage showed
security officers of the education department in the western city of
Hamedan preventing teachers from entering the building. As a result, the
protesters held their rally in the street. In the cities of Shush,
Shahor and Karkheh, teachers gathered in front of education departments.
In a video sent to IranWire, one of the teachers said that the rally
aimed to defend the teachers held behind bars and to pursue the demands
of the teachers' union. Videos shared on social media showed similar
protests in Ahvaz, Harsin and Arak. The call for nationwide protests of
Iranian teachers has been welcomed by activists and labor organizations.
Zamimeh, a campaign working to eliminate gender discrimination from
textbooks, supported the call on its Twitter account, saying that
children's right to safe education is a <fundamental human right.> Ateke
Rajabi, a young teacher from Khorasan Razavi province, expressed
solidarity with the protests by publishing a video on his Twitter
account. Rajabi was fired from his workplace after launching a
one-person strike to protest the dismissal of one of his colleagues.
Unrest, including protests by teachers, has rattled Iran since last
summer in response to declining living standards, wage arrears and a
lack of welfare support. Adding to the dissent, the September death of
22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody for allegedly wearing a head
scarf improperly breathed new life into the demonstrations, which the
authorities have tried to quell with harsh measures.>>
Read more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/116362-violence-reported-as-iranian-teachers-protest-across-the-country/
Opinion by Gino d'Artali: in the hearts and minds of people Jina Masha
Amini is still alive and kicking and the protesters are kicking the
behinds of the very very hard basically repeating what Sepideh Qoliyan
shouted outside Evin prison, <Khamenei the Zahhak! We'll take you down
into the grave,> referring to a mythical king said to have fed serpents
growing out of his shoulders with young people's brains.>
Iranwire - By OMID SHAMS - May 9, 2023
<<Guerrilla Theater and Iran's Nationwide Protests
During at least three months after the nationwide protests started with
the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police,
international media outlets published pictures of women who cut off
their hair and threw it to the ground or hanged their headscarves on
sticks and burned them as a symbol of subjugation and misogyny. From the
very first day, protest theater was ingrained in what has become known
as the Mahsa Uprising.
On November 25, 2022, one could hear disturbing sounds like a funeral
march or drumbeats of warning coming from the front of the Netherland’s
Foreign Ministry. More than 20 members of the theatrical company Tales
of A Revolution stood on white stands in the front of the ministry's
building, with a blood drop painted on their faces. They played a march
with bottles of mineral water and shouted <Shut down the Iranian
embassy>, <Your silence is violence> and <Woman, Life, Freedom.> Also
standing in front of the Foreign Ministry with an emaciated face and
holding a petition scroll was Baluch activist Masoud Hamidi-Far, who for
two weeks had staged a sit-in there in the harsh winter of the
Netherlands. This powerful perfor-mance heightened the interest of the
Dutch public, media outlets and eventually politicians in the events
happening in Iran. On December 14, 2022, while voting for expelling the
Islamic Republic from the UN Commission on the Status of Women was in
progress, the US-based Iranian sculptor Ramin Etemadi Bozorg stood in
the freezing cold of New York from 9:50 to 11:33, holding a big piece of
red-colored ice, sculpted in the shape of Iran. The ice melted little by
little into a small stream in the color of blood. With this powerful
performance, he told the spectators that the distressful situation in
Iran needs urgent attention and every moment of procrastination by
politicians would cost the lives of tens of Iranians. Some of these
performances are rooted in the most ancient rites of Iranian culture, in
which cutting hair has been a ceremonial rite of Iranian women to mourn
and protest. This rite has found its way into Iranian mythology and
poetry, such as the story of Siavash, a mythological Iranian prince and
a major figure in Ferdowsi's <Book of Kings,> whose unjust and tragic
death is mourned by women who cut their hair. But the performers have
also borrowed images, concepts or themes familiar to an international
audience to make the situation in Iran more tangible for them. For
instance, at the height of the protests, many pictures were posted
online of protesting Iranian women in the streets who were dressed like
characters in the TV series The Handmaid's Tale, an adaptation of a
novel by Margaret Atwood that takes place in a fictitious totalitarian
and patriarchal state by the name of the Republic of Gilead. In December
2022, a group of women, dressed like the handmaids in the TV series,
held a demonstration in the US city of Seattle to protest against the
Islamic Republic. On International Women's Day on March 8, 2023, in a
march organized by the group Stage of Freedom in the center of London
from the Palace of Westminster to the Iranian embassy in Kensington,
women who were dressed like the characters in The Handmaid's Tale
carried pictures of those killed during the protests in Iran. Some had a
patch on one eye to remind people of hundreds of protesters who had been
blinded by the security forces. This march, with women in red cloaks
carrying pictures with the words <Woman, Life, Freedom,> was visually so
impressive that the spectators could not help wanting to know more about
it. On March 7, 2023, in response to a wave of chemical attacks on
girls' schools across Iran, students staged a protest theater in the
courtyard of Tabriz University. Female students, wearing black
blindfolds reminiscent of protesters who had been executed, sat on the
ground as security forces angrily milled around them. Then one of them
started chanting: <We swear to your name, a name which is our watchword,
that Mahsa's night will dawn with a hundred voices.> Then she put her
hand on the shoulder of the students next to her who, in turn, raised
their heads and joined the chant. The same thing was repeated when each
student <woke up> the next student. When all the girls had joined hands,
they <rose up> and this time sang the song more forcefully. Then two men
with covered faces approached them, moved around them for a little while
and then released a <gas> into the air. The girls started coughing. A
woman entered the scene and helped one of them. A man entered the scene
to help as well and then a woman, clad in full-length chador, ran to the
girl who had been poisoned. At this point, they all held each other's
hands and finished their song with more resonance: <Sing so that the
city becomes the song of women! So that this country becomes our
country!> >>
Read more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/features/116342-guerrilla-theater-and-irans-nationwide-protests/
Opinion by Gino d'Artali: this is a very long nd powerfull and more than
convincing article to revolt against the Iranian dictatorship.
NCRI - Women Committee - Articles - Women's news - May 6, 2023
<<A Political Prisoner's Letter from Evin Prison: What should we regret?
Political prisoner Golrokh Iraee described the situation in society and
exposed the new tricks of the regime to gain legitimacy in a letter sent
from Evin Prison on Friday, May 5. Referring to the regime's amnesty
theatrics in February, she wrote, <Forcing people to express regret does
not restore the lost legitimacy.> The text of her letter is as follows:
What should we regret?
We who live under the poverty line, feed our children by means of
prostitution, are hanged for seventy thousand tomans, and our hands are
amputated according to Sharia law, We, whose children are hanged for the
crime of carrying a knife and who are victims of child-killing, and
whose eyes are gouged out after being shot at,
We, whose teenagers are being poisoned in chemical attacks at schools,
while education was supposed to be free,
What should we regret if we are punished and killed for our basic rights
and lifestyle, relationships, clothing, eating, and drinking? The lack
of an independent judiciary is the subject of many discussions. The
Islamic Republic always denies it, but what is happening and what we
live through is proof of this claim. On September 26, 2022, about a week
after Mahsa Amini was killed and four months after my release, the
security police attacked my house, breaking the door. Eleven armed
agents attacked me and kicked me, arresting me while beating and
offending me. After several hours of interrogation and transfer to the
Vozara detention center and being interrogated at a base called Imam
Hassan Mojtaba in the southeast of Tehran, I was transferred to Qarchak
Prison in Varamin. After 10 days, I went to the Shapur Criminal
Investigation Department, where I was offended, physically abused,
stripped naked, and physically searched by the police officers. Sometime
later, I was charged (without any proof) by the investigator, Haj Moradi,
on alleged charges of <assembly and collusion>, <propaganda against the
state,> and <disruption of order.> The judiciary of the Islamic
Republic, like its other powers, institutions, and organizations, is
under the control of a reactionary autocracy, and the appointees in any
position have the freedom to behave as they wish and carry out the
orders of intelligence agents and <anonymous soldiers> of the regime.
The nature of the Islamic Republic is the same as it was from the
beginning when it stole and seized the (anti-monarchy) revolution. The
current judges are also the descendants of the judges of the 1980s and
the <Death Commission>, the same persons who forced many people under
torture to reveal their like-minded comrades then. Now that the Islamic
Republic is forced to change course to build up an international image,
it pretends that it adheres to the covenants it has accepted. So, the
policy today dictates that they push people to remorse or compulsory
adjustment of their stands against them behind a mask of kindness and
compassion.
....
The one who has his hand in state murders or issues death sentences and
takes people to the gallows, the one who suppresses the people who
protest for a better life and kills or maims them under beating must be
ashamed and remorse if there is an honor left for him. Every day in our
country, several people are hanged due to political opposition or not
thinking like the regime, buying and selling drugs, robbery, or murder.
Death has become normal for us and a source of livelihood for them. They
came to make the poor rich and the oppressed free, but corruption became
systematic, and embezzlement became the second job of their children.
....
To redefine the words <Mostazaf> (oppressed and kept poor) to find a
civilized meaning for it, does not decrease the pain and suffering of
living in poverty. To call the poor <a class of society that enjoys less
privileges> and to categorize the hungry people in the lower deciles
does not reshape the nasty face of poverty, just as when slums and
shanty towns were called the margins of the city, it did not relieve the
suffering of its residents and did not build a shelter for them. Regret
was the share of those who did not hear the voice of the people's
revolution and they were overthrown, and this will be the share of those
who do not learn from history and do not see the revolutionary uprising
of the people; may they suffer the fate of previous dictators.
Golrokh Iraee
May 2023
Evin Prison
>>
Read the complete letter here:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/05/06/letter-from-evin-prison/
Iranwire - May 8, 2023
Striking Gas Sector Workers Arrested as Labor Protests Spread
Iranian authorities have arrested striking contractors working in the
development of the South Pars gas fields project, local media reported
on May 2, as labor strikes spread to more than 110 oil, gas and
petrochemical industry sites in 14 provinces. According to Fars, a news
agency affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the
arrested contractors worked in the Pars Energy Special Economic Zones.
They were charged with <numerous labor violations, anti-revolutionary
calls and actions, and [participating in] strikes in industrial
development projects,> the report said, adding that more contractors
will be summoned and arrested in the coming days.
South Pars in the Persian Gulf is the world's largest gas field.
On April 21, the Council for Organizing Oil Contract-Workers' Protests
called for a strike to demand a 79 percent increase in wages, timely
payment of salaries, improved working conditions and safer work
environments, among other things. <The contractors in the oil and
petrochemical industries don't think about the workers. They only think
about making more profits,> an oil industry worker tells IranWire. A
labor activist said that the contracts drawn up by the Ministry of Oil
<allow contractors to violate existing laws.> Sekhawat Asadi, the CEO of
the Pars Energy Special Economic Zones, has recently threatened striking
workers with replacement by a new workforce. The activist said such
statements were part of attempts to intimidate striking workers. He
emphasized that replacing skilled workers with inexperienced ones could
be very harmful for Iran's oil and gas industry.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/116323-striking-gas-sector-workers-arrested-as-labor-protests-spread/
Iranwire - March 17, 2023 - Cartoons
<<Prison Cannot Defeat Sepideh
Iranian civil rights activist Sepideh Qoliyan was re-arrested this week,
hours after her release from more than four years in prison. Why?
Because when she came out of Tehran's Evin prison she wasn’t wearing the
mandatory hijab and she shouted slogans against Supreme Leader Ali
Khamenei...
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/cartoons/114870-prison-cannot-defeat-sepideh/
|Note by Gino d'Artali: <Khamenei the Zahhak! We'll take you down into
the grave,> she shouted outside Evin prison, referring to a mythical
king said to have fed serpents growing out of his shoulders with young
people's brains.|
Iranwire - May 8, 2023
<<Two Men Hanged in Iran in Blasphemy Case Amid Surge in Executions
Two men have been hanged in Iran after being sentenced to death for
blasphemy, the judiciary's news website Mizan reported on May 8. Yousef
Mehrdad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare were running online anti-religion
platforms dedicated to the hatred of Islam, the promotion of atheism and
insults to sanctities, Mirzan said. Mehrdad was a father of three young
children. The two men died at Arak Prison in central Iran. They had been
arrested in 2020, accused of being involved in a Telegram channel called
<Critique of Superstition and Religion,> according to the US Commission
on International Religious Freedom. Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, who leads
the Norway-based group Iran Human Rights, said the executions exposed
the <medieval nature> of Iran's theocracy <The international community
must show with its reaction that executions for expressing an opinion is
intolerable,> Amiry-Moghaddam said in a statement. <The refusal of the
international community to react decisively is a green light for the
Iranian government and all their like-minded people around the world.>
The Islamic Republic is one of the world's top executioners, having put
to death more than 200 prisoners since the start of the year, amid
continuing protests against Iran's clerical establishment. According to
Iran Human Rights, half of the more than 40 people killed in the past
two weeks belonged to the mainly Sunni Baluch ethnic minority. Amnesty
International and Abdorrahman Boroumand Center said in March that
Iranian authorities have escalated the use of the death penalty as a
tool of repression against ethnic minorities.
Read more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/116310-two-men-hanged-in-iran-in-blasphemy-case-amid-surge-in-executions/
and view cartoons published by Iranwire headed with <<Two Men Hanged in
Iran in Blasphemy Case Amid Surge in Executions>>here:
https://iranwire.com/en/cartoons/116313-defeating-the-executioners/
and here for an overview by
www.cryfreedom.net/JINA-FFF3-executed.htm
for an overview of the hanged martyrs of the Zan, Zendagi, Azadi
revolution. The in the above excexuted not included because it was not
related with the revolution. Still, as a human I say that one should not
kill another except out of self-defence as the Holy Qu'ran says.
BBC News Middle East - May 5,2023
<<Iran protests: Football star Ali Karimi under travel ban, leaked
papers show
Iran imposed a travel ban on football star Ali Karimi, his wife and her
family during the recent anti-government protests, leaked documents seen
by the BBC show. Mr Karimi was among the first celebrities who
vehemently criticised the deadly crackdown on the protests which erupted
in September.
The footballer, known as the Maradona of Asia, lived in the UAE at the
time. The protests were sparked by the death in custody of a Kurdish
Iranian woman. Mahsa Amini, 22, died after allegedly being beaten by
morality police who arrested her for what they said was her failure to
wear her headscarf properly.
....
One of the documents seen by BBC Persian says Mr Karimi <was invited [to
Iran] by our agent nine times and has received serious warnings>. In a
letter marked <top secret> and dated 24 October 2022, Iran's
Revolutionary Guard's intelligence unit informed Tehran's prosecutor
that <Karimi's recent activities were instigated by his wife Sahar
Davari and her family>. In the late 1980s Iran had executed Ms Davari's
father, Gholamali Davari, on charges of being a member of the Communist
Tudeh Party. He was an officer in Iran's air force at the time. The
document claims Karimi's in-laws, on his behalf, were aiming to sell his
mansion in Lavasan, an affluent suburb of capital Tehran, for $20m (18m
euros; £16m) in order to emigrate permanently. In the document the
Revolutionary Guard asked for a travel ban on Karimi, Davari, her
mother, step-father, brother and sister. This would prevent them from
leaving the country, including Mr Karimi and his wife if either of them
returned. The leaked letter was given to BBC Persian by a hacking group
called Edalat-e Ali (Ali's Justice). Mr Karimi told BBC Persian in a
phone interview that his older brother was also prosecuted several times
and banned from leaving the country. <My friend was interrogated three
or four times in the notorious Evin prison,> he said. He said Iran keeps
people he follows on Instagram under close surveillance. <One of them
needed both a deposit bail and a guarantor to be able to leave Iran,> he
said. In early October, Iranian state media also claimed Mr Karimi had
sold his mansion in Lavasan. But Mr Karimi told BBC Persian that this
was not true. <Security forces raided the place and brutally beat up the
janitor,> he said, adding that the property had been empty ever since.
<My neighbours tell me lights are on some nights and plain-clothes
agents are seen going in and out,> he said. Mr Karimi shared pictures of
CCTV which Iranian authorities have installed near his property. <Any
car stops there for five minutes, security forces swarm the place,> he
said.
Mr Karimi and his family have since moved from the UAE to an undisclosed
location.>>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-65473415
Note from Gino d'Artali: Zan, Zendagi, Azadi sisters in Iran and
Afghanistan and other countries : the below is to inspire you to never
give up your fight:
The Guardian - May 2, 2023 - Opinion by Scheaffer Okore
Global development is supported by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
<<Stop praising women's strength. We need a world where we don’t have to
fight to be valued
I've lost count of the number of times I've seen or heard women lauded
for their strength whenever they are recognised for anything
outstanding. Critics argue that there's nothing wrong with this - after
all, it is evidence of women's hard work. However, there is no evidence,
historical or otherwise, that shows women not working hard. History is a
litany of hardworking, strong, audacious women whose impact was limited
because their strength could only get them so far. Women aren't working
hard, being strong or audacious in a vacuum. Women continue to be strong
in a world where they consistently have fewer resources, less power and
less influence than men. Additionally, the spotlight tends to shine on
the few already uplifted women, with multiple societal privileges, such
as belonging to dominant races, socioeconomic classes, religions and
citizenships of global north countries. On the rare occasions it
illuminates women without racial privilege, power or class, it demands
even greater strength to have overcome these extra barriers. But no
amount of <strength> can overcome gender pay gaps, limited career growth
opportunities, the motherhood penalty, extremely inadequate ways to deal
with gendered harassment and violence in the workplace, at home or even
using legal means, and more. Praising women's strength, without
analysing why women’s strength is a burden, is to wilfully ignore the
direct links between the structural barriers that entrench gender
marginalisation and the thwarting of women's full potential.
Marginalisation by gender is an intentional tactic used not just
against-cis-gendered women, but against multiple gender minorities, to
ensure the success and power of select groups over others. For instance,
something as simple as walking alone, specifically at night, continues
to pose huge life risks for women everywhere. This tells us that even
the fullness of a 24-hour day is something women are structurally
denied. Mechanisms that ensure women's physical safety and security are
still viewed as negotiable, despite an abundance of statistics showing
an urgent need for them. The resignation of former New Zealand prime
minister Jacinda Ardern, who said that she <didn't have enough in the
tank> to finish her term, resonated with many women beyond the political
sphere, women who understood that there is not enough <strength> that
can mitigate rocketing levels of burnout emanating from non-stop
misogynist onslaughts.
Neither has <strength> protected the millions of victims of femicide and
maternal mortality, or survivors of gendered online violence. It hasn't
protected the women and girls of Syria, Afghanistan and Iran, and many
others, who have backbones of steel yet continue to face insurmountable
levels of gendered structural violence. To change these harmful systems,
we must continue radically shifting norms, despite continuing
resistance. Second, creating accountable and equitable governance
structures is not just women's work; it is everyone’s task, with those
in possession of political and other decision-making power, resources
and influence needing to do much more heavy lifting. Finally, the
romanticisation of women's survival within structures purposely deployed
to keep them fighting losing battles must be abolished. Society must
begin prioritising women and all gender-marginalised people as worthy of
better social protection, better pay, better opportunities, better
options, safer societies or systems, and better lives.>>
Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/may/03/stop-praising-womens-strength-we-need-a-world-where-we-dont-have-to-fight-to-be-valued
Jinha - Womens News Center -April 24, 2023
<<Armenian twin sisters resist genocidal attacks in NE Syria
Hasakah- The Ottoman Empire committed a genocide against Armenians
living Northern Kurdistan and Turkey in 1915, at the time of the First
World War. Despite the genocide, the Armenian people were reborn from
their ashes and continue to fight in order to preserve their identity
and culture. The Martyr Nubar Ozanyan Brigade, Armenian military forces
in North and East Syria, was founded on April 24, 2019, the 104th
anniversary of the Armenian genocide, to protect the Armenian people and
preserve Armenian culture, history, existence and identity. NuJINHA
spoke to Angera Anush and Lusin Hagobiyan, twin sisters and fighters of
the brigade. Angera Anush grew up by listening to stories about the
Armenian genocide from her grandfather. <My grandfather told us, 'I will
never forget the genocide against us in 1915. The bones of Armenians
were thrown into the street. Our intellectuals, academics, and students
were hanged and killed. 1.5 million Armenians, including women and
children, were killed and hundreds of thousands of women went missing.
The women who said, 'We are thirsty', were taken away and killed near
rivers. The rivers turned red with their blood. During the Armenian
genocide, women were raped and their hands were marked so that they
could be resold. This pain is unforgettable.' The Ottoman Empire
committed the genocide against Armenians from Northern Kurdistan to the
city of Aleppo in North and East Syria. A century later, the Armenians
face genocidal attacks again in the same territories.>
'Armenians had no forces'
<The Turkish state built its existence by committing genocides against
other nations,> Angera Anush said, <Armenians and Greeks were
farsighted, so their intellectuals and scholars were killed. At that
time, the Ottomans said; 'If the Armenians and Greeks develop, the Turks
will remain behind.' They were so racist and nationalist that they did
not accept anything but 'one flag, one language and one religion'. At
the time of Armenian genocide, Armenians had no military forces to
respond to the genocidal attacks.> Following the revolution in Rojava,
the twin sisters decided to protect their people. <We decided to protect
Armenian women and other women so that everyone would know that
Armenians still exist and will exist.>
'We should preserve our history together'
Calling on Armenians living around the world, Angera Anush said, <We
should strengthen our defense against all genocidal attacks. Women must
fight for freedom and use their power to serve the people. Armenian
women and men should organize themselves to protect themselves. We
joined the Martyr Nubar Ozanyan Brigade to protect our people against
all kinds of attacks. We should preserve our history, our culture, our
identity and our religion. We exist, we will continue to exist.>
'Our goal is to liberate all women'
Speaking about why they decided to join the brigade, Lusin Hagobiyan
said, <I decided to join the brigade to have a role and mission in my
society as a woman and to guarantee gender equality. It is important for
a woman to be able to think, speak, express herself without fear and
believe in herself. I wanted to join the military forces but I was
rejected because I was too young. The honor of the Kurdish women
affected my personality. Therefore, I decided to be involved in cultural
activities. As Armenian women, our goal is to liberate all women.>
'We built a new life by resisting'
She added, <Women were excluded from society. They married, had
children, and spent their lives at their home. Women said it was 'Our
destiny'. We did not accept this and we built a new life by resisting.>
'I get my strength and will from my mother'
Emphasizing that her parents were at the forefront of the battlefields
when the revolution started, Lusin Hagobiyan said, <My mother always
said she wanted to fight in the mountains and be a fighter. She realized
her childhood dream. I get my strength and will from my mother. I will
fight until all enslaved women are free. The Turkish state now follows
in the footsteps of the Ottomans. Although the names change, the
mentality never changes. This is why we are determined to fight and
protect our people. We are ready to protect women and our people
wherever we are.> >>
Source:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/armenian-twin-sisters-resist-genocidal-attacks-in-ne-syria-33144
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Liberation Front 2019/cryfreedom.net 2023