Geneva: rally in solidarity with the Kurdish people

Around forty women and men gathered Thursday evening in Bel-Air to call for political solutions for the Kurdish people. A gathering in memory of the women murdered in Paris in 2013 et 2022whose photos were brandished by the demonstrators.

“Their goal is to perpetrate Kurdish genocide and feminicide. But we will do XXI^e century the century of women!” a representative of the Kurdish Women’s Movement in Switzerland exclaimed into the microphone. Accompanied by the Geneva feminist strike collective, the activists chanted the now famous slogan “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi”, or “Woman, life, freedom”.

Attacks in Rojava

But the gathering also aimed to alert public opinion to the current situation in Rojava. This Kurdish autonomous zone in northeastern Syria is currently undergoing attacks by armed Islamist factions who take advantage of the instability following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. “Erdogan assassin,” cried the demonstrators, referring to the support provided by the Turkish regime to these armed groups.

“Rojava is a concrete example of revolution and women’s revolution. We won’t stop. You can cut off all the flowers, but you will never stop spring!” declared the representative of the Kurdish Women’s Movement in Switzerland.

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Léa Frischknecht is a PR journalist in the Geneva section. After a bachelor’s degree in Political Science at the University of Geneva, she obtained her master’s degree at the Academy of Media and Journalism at the University of Neuchâtel.More info

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