TJA Report: Attacks on Rojava are a planned architecture of violence

The report stated that serious violations of the rights of women and children occurred during operations that began on January 6 with attacks on the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyah neighborhoods of Aleppo and later spread across Rojava.

HEALTH SYSTEMS WERE DELIBERATELY TARGETED

The Free Women’s Movement (TJA) released its report titled “North and East Syria–Rojava January 2026 Women and Children’s Rights Violations.”

In the report, HTS, ISIS, and paramilitary structures affiliated with Turkey were held responsible for the attacks. The report added that the health system was deliberately targeted, five hospitals in Aleppo were struck, and in Kobanê four children were killed in armed raids and one child lost their lives in a bombardment.

The disruption of basic services, the use of water and food lines as “weapons of war,” and the systematic use of sexual violence were also listed among the documented violations.

1.3 million civilians displaced

The report stressed that more than 70 percent of the 1.3 million displaced civilians are women and children, showing that the burden of the crisis has fallen most heavily on these groups.

It noted that torture and the public display of the bodies of women fighters, looting and arson targeting women’s institutions, and attacks on cemeteries are part of a systematic strategy aimed at “targeting social memory.”

The TJA argued that what has occurred amounts to demographic cleansing and social destruction and called on international institutions to urgently activate monitoring, protection, and sanction mechanisms.

Planned architecture of violence

The report concluded with the following statement: “This picture, spreading from Aleppo across Rojava, is a planned architecture of violence aimed at dispossessing the Kurdish population, degrading its identity through colonial language, and erasing the ideal of democratic coexistence from the geography.

By documenting the systematic attacks experienced, this study aims to inform the international public, make visible the policy of liquidation imposed on the Kurdish people, and stand against the denial of truth. At the same time, it calls on the relevant states, international institutions, and human rights mechanisms to assume responsibility, activate effective monitoring and protection mechanisms, and take urgent and concrete steps against this attempt at social destruction.”