JINHA

MÊRDÎN –Assyrian women's fearless battle against Daesh attacks on Assyrian and Syriac villages in Til Temir, said Sîham Qirû, an Assyrian woman herself and an official in the Economic and Trade Ministry of Rojava's Cizîrê Canton, has become legendary for the Assyrian women of Rojava. Sîham said she came to the World March of Women to give the women of the world the good news that women in Rojava have accomplished a revolution and created a self-defense system.

Daesh began attacks aimed at Assyrian and Syriac people starting with the February 22 assault on the Rojava city of Hesekê. In the ongoing attacks on Til Temir and Til Hemis, which resembled Daesh attacks on Êzîdîs insofar as they aimed to kidnap women and children, Kurdish and Assyrian forces worked together to defend the villages.

The YPG, YPJ, Syriac Military Council, Xabûr Defense Units and Rojava Asayiş Forces have all taken part in the defense of the Rojava revolution, one in which all ethnic groups in Rojava take part.

Sîham, speaking to JINHA in Nusaybin during the World March of Women, explained that Assyrian women in Rojava have fearless defended themselves and their communities against Daesh's masculinist and culturally genocidal violence.  And just as Arîn Mîrxan has become the symbol of the Kobanê resistance, so has Widad Yûnan, an Assyrian woman, become symbolic for her defense of the house in which she lived alone. Widad killed five gang members who were attempting to take her house.

"No one knows what happened to Widad Yûnan after that day," said Sîham. "All we know is that she has become symbolic for Assyrians."

Sîham said that after this, Kurds, Arabs and Assyrians would form a united front.

"The struggle of women in Rojava against Daesh gangs has demonstrated women's willpower and women's revolution," said Sîham. "I think these Daesh gangs, who are a danger to all humanity, will receive their answer: all peoples' self-defense."

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