The Platform to Fight Against Forcibly Abducted Women issued a written statement for November 25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women titled “Fighting Violence Against Women is Fighting for Humanity” and stressed that November 25 has been a voice of dissent for 57 years.

“THERE HAS BEEN A GENDERCIDE IN THE 21ST CENTURY”

The statement stressed that the femicide carried out by ISIS against Syriac, Armenian, Shia Turkmen and Shebek women in Mosul, Raqqa and Syria, in general, has been a turning point for the peoples of the Middle East after its genocidal war against the Êzidî people and women in Shengal on August 4, 2015. The statement said there has been a gendercide in the 21st century and added that women had been buried alive in mass graves, forcibly abducted and sold in slave markets.

“FIGHT AGAINST ALL VIOLENCE”

The statement said all kinds of crimes against humanity have been committed over women and added that there are still some 3.000 women whose fate is unknown. The statement continued: “As such massacres go down in human history, women of these peoples and sister peoples have taken on all kinds of resistance and have created an immense leap in defending themselves and their homes, forming their unity, and holding on to hope in the face of desperation, in the knowledge that what happened is not their fate. If today the women of Shengal and the women of Raqqa have been able to become synonymous with hope, the future and being able to laugh still, the only reason for that is their rejection and their resistance.”