Kurdish women’s movement commemorates victims of Roboski massacre

The Kurdish Free Women’s Movement (Tevgera Jinên Azad-TJA) released a statement on the 10th anniversary of the Roboski Massacre, commemorating the victims and condemning the annihilation policies of the Turkish state.

“The Turkish Armed Forces, which built watch towers on every corner of Kurdistan to monitor the Kurdish people every single second, which boasts of having the largest and best-equipped army of NATO, defined the killing of 34 civilians as an ‘operational accident’. Instead of being ashamed, it ridiculed the massacre!”, the statement said.

Pointing to the enemy law and hostile policies implemented against the Kurds, the statement continued, “The isolation regime imposed on Imrali and all other prisons and the whole society indicates the continuity of annihilation policies in every field.”

The political power desperately resorts to the politics of death against the resistance of political prisoners, the statement said, recalling Garibe Gezer, who was subjected to brutal torture and suspiciously died in prison recently.

Condemning the impunity policies, the statement addressed “those turning the borders into death warrants”, saying, “As families in Roboski, as Emine Şenyaşar, as mothers holding Justice Vigil for ill prisoners, as Peace Mothers who have been fighting for an honourable peace, as Saturday Mothers who have never given up their struggle for their children, brothers and sisters, we stand here against injustice, dishonour and inhumane treatment. The Roboski Massacre was not the first one, and will not be the last. We once again respectfully commemorate 34 people who lost their lives in the massacre and extend our condolences to their relatives and the Kurdish people. As women, we will continue to struggle for freedom, equality, democracy and justice until the perpetrators of each massacre are revealed and an honourable life is built in these lands.”