Women’s Board in AANES condemns beheading of two female civil employees

Women‌‌ 09:59 AM - 2021-01-25

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The Women’s Board in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) condemned in a statement on Sunday the kidnapping and murder of two civil officials by ISIS agents.

 

On Friday, armed men believed to be from Islamic State (ISIS) sleeper cells stormed the house of the co-president of the town of Tel Shaier, Saada al-Faisal al-Hermas kidnapping her along with vice-chair Hind Latif al-Khudair.

 

Hours after their abduction, townspeople found their beheaded bodies on the side of the road near the town, in the Dashisha district in the countryside of Shaddadi.

 

In the statement, the Women’s Board appealed to women’s humanitarian and human rights organizations to condemn the violations and massacres that are perpetrated against women.

 

“Women have always been present in the military arena to defeat ISIS, and have also proven themselves through their participation in the political, economic, and administrative fields,” the statement said.

 

The Women’s Board said that targeting women within the Autonomous Administration is an attempt to undermine the women’s freedom project.

 

She added that these assassinations aim to destabilize security and stability in the region and spread fear among the population.

 

ISIS occupied vast swaths of land in Iraq and Syria in 2014 declaring a caliphate in both countries and committing mass massacres and the most heinous crimes against the humanity. 

 

Although both countries announced military victory over the terrorists, but remnants of them are to this date carrying out insurgency attacks in attempts to regain their strength.

 

In Iraq and on August 3, 2014 ISIS terrorist occupied the northern Iraqi town of Shingal (Sinjar), main land of the Yazidis. Men and boys were brutally slaughtered, while women and girls enslaved and raped—all because they believe in something different. 

 

According to the United Nations, ISIS had massacred 5,000 Yazidi men and kidnapped about 7000 Yazidi women and girls (who were forced into slavery) in northern Iraq in August 2014.

 

 

 

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