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KCK calls for solidarity with Yazidi Kurds
in face of ISIS attacks
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May 13, 2014
QANDIL, Kurdistan region 'Iraq',— In a
statement from the Co-Presidency of its Executive
Council, the KCK has called for all the peoples and
faith groups of Kurdistan to stand in solidarity
with Yazidis following attacks against the community
by units with the Islamic State or Iraq and Sham
(ISIS) in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The KCK statement also confirmed the body’s
commitment to protecting the Yazidis and all other
peoples in the region, reading, “We declare that we
are prepared to fulfil all of our our
responsibilities and duties as regards defending our
Yazidi peoples.”
According to the statement, “in recent days six
Yazidi Kurds were killed in two separate attacks by
Islamic-jihadists from the ISIS in Sinjar (Kurdish:
Şengal), and two women were also kidnapped by the
gang members.” The KCK statement went on to stress
that despite similar attacks in the past neither the
Central Iraqi Government nor the KRG has taken
sufficient precautions to protect the community, and
argued that organization was the only way to protect
communities against such attacks in the future.
The statement continued by arguing that “whatever
the dimensions of the attacks against the Yazidi
people they should not live their own lands under
any circumstances” and called on other people of
other faith and ethnic backgrounds to stand in
solidarity with the Yazidi community.”
“Those gangs in the Middle East who claim to be
affiliated with al-Qaeda are continuing to wage a
dirty war against any community who is not of the
same ethnic and religious background, and against
Kurds, Alevis, Yazidis, and Armenians in particular.
Every day the care out the most inhuman, savage
attacks and they do so in the name of Islam. Growing
stronger with the material and logistical support of
the colonist AKP government, they are directing
attacks against the gains and the very existence ofwww.Ekurd.net
Kurds in Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava). Although these
gangs have been dealt serious blows by the people
and defense forces of Syrian Kurdistan – in Kobanê
most of all – they continue their attacks in various
places. In recent days ISIS gang members attacked
two of our Yazidi people at the workplace in the
region of Mosul. They were subjected to attack only
for being Yazidi. One of these two was killed, and
an a total of four Yazidis were savagely murdered in
a series of attacks. We send our condolences to the
families of the victims and the Yazidi people, and
we stress once more that we will always be on their
side.”
The Yazidis Have Been Left
Defenseless In the Face Of Attacks
“Since 2007 there have been numerous massacres
directed against the Yazidi people in the areas of
Mosul and Sinjar. Neither the Central Iraqi
Government nor the Government of South Kurdistan
have adopted a the proper attitude in response to
these attacks, nor taken precautions, nor pursued
the killers. In fact they have looked the other way
in face of the massacre of Yazidis and have left the
Yazidis defenseless in the face of massacres. These
gangs, which exploit the religious beliefs of the
people of the Middle East for their evil ambitions,
are attempting with these massacres to drive the
Yazidi people from their own lands and carry out a
genocide. These massacres are not the first or last
carried out in keeping with the nation-state
mentality that wants to create a one-state,
one-nation, one-religion, one-language [system].
There is no other road or way except for an
organized struggle against these fascist, inhuman
gangs which have no other thought or penalty other
than to destroy all other national, communal, faith
and culture groups in the region outside of their
own. For this reason whatever the dimensions of the
attacks against the Yazidi people they should not
live their own lands under any circumstances.”
“The Yazidi people, no matter where or whom they
come from, must develop unity the capacity for self-defense
through organization in order to defend themselves
against all kinds of attacks, and they must respond.
All cultural and faith groups living in Kurdistan
should stand in firm solidarity with them against
these gang attacks. Breaking such attacks, they
should guarantee the security and freedom for the
cultural existence of all peoples and faiths. They
should aim to eliminate these genocidal and fascist
gangs.”
Call For Unity and For
Taking Ownership
“We as the Kurdish Freedom Movement announce to
everyone that we are renewing our call that such
unity be established, that the Yazidi people are not
alone in the face of such attacks, and that we are
prepared to do whatever necessary to fulfil our duty
and responsibility to defend the Yazidi people.”
The Yazidis are a Kurdish religious group linked to
Zoroastrianism and Sufism. They currently live
primarily in Iraq's Kurdistan region and the Nineveh
Province of northern Iraq.
Some 350,000 Yazidis live
in villages in Iraqi Kurdistan region and in Kurdish areas outside Kurdistan
region in around Mosul in Nineveh province, with additional communities in Transcaucasia, Armenia,
Georgia, Turkey, and Syria, estimated to over
600,000 worldwide. Additional communities in Armenia, Georgia, Turkey,
and Syria have been in decline since the 1990s, as
their members having emigrated to Europe, especially
to Germany.
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