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AMÛDE - The people of the city of Amûde, Rojava have set up a tent for mourning the socialist youth who died in the Suruç bombing.

On Monday, a group of youth with the Federation of Socialist Youth Associations (SGDF) were targeted in a suicide bombing in the town of Suruç, Turkey. The activists were on their way to the city of Kobanê, in the Rojava autonomous region in Syria, to help rebuild the city after a Daesh attack.

In Amûde, a Rojava city located in the canton of Cizîrê, locals have set up a tent to mourn the victims. The tent is hung with photographs of the 31 activists killed in the attack, as well as the flags of Turkish communist party MLKP and Rojava defense groups YPG and YPJ.

Mura Zoro, director of the Yekîtiya Star women's organization for Amûde, said, "As a mother and as a woman, I condemn everyone who had a hand in this attack. The Kurdish people and democratic groups can't be wiped out with massacres." She explained that locals in Amûde have set up the tent to honor the memory of the young activists.

Aisha Ibrahim is the speaker of the Martyr Lezgin Commune in Amûde. Aisha, an Arab woman noted that among the youths were not just Kurds, but Turks, Arabs and people from a number of different groups. "It's not important what people those youth came from; it was that they represented fraternity," said Aisha. "However many genocides and explosions there are, they can't win; the people who struggle and defend democracy will win."

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