The genocidal attack of ISIS on the Êzidî Kurds
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 01 September / Internationale Bulletin / No. 143

 

ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Levant) has seized Mosul easily and proclaimed the Islamic State on 10th July. Before and after the proclamation of the state it advanced in direction of Mosul-Hewler-Kirkuk-Bagdad. On 3rd August it attacked the Kurdish emigrant camps Mahmur, Cezaa and Kobani in  Shingal, the connection route to Rojava.

 

ISIS (now under the name of Islamic State) has not only attacked Shingal because it's on the road leading to Rojava, but also because it differs religiously. The occupation was easy to realize because Barzani's Peshmerga  had left the city in August and thereby offered it ISIS.

The religious beliefs of the Êzidî Kurds are very old. The religion of the  800.000 Êzidî Kurds, living in Iraq, differs from Islam, Christianity and Judaismus. In the past Yazidism was widespread among the Kurds and their neighbour peoples; it arose from Zoroastrianism. Today it's common among the Kurds.

 

This is the 73rd genocidal attack on the  Êzidî Kurds; they call it a law in their history.

The Islamic State has become the latest perpetrator of genocide against the Shingal Kurds. It murdered thousands of Kurds, young and old, children and women. It was also intent on killing the hundreds of thousands who fled into the Shingal mountains. Yet it did not reach this goal because YPG (People's Protection Units of Rojava) opposed it. Anyhow Islamic State attacked the villages in the lowlands surrounding Shingal and murdered young and old that were not able or did not want to leave their villages. It captured thousands of women turning them into Cariye (slaves), raped them and offered them on the slave markets. It wants to attack the villages in the lowlands, liberated by YPG, again, chase away the Êzidî and claim their homeland as part of a Sunnite-Arabic islamic state.

 

In the last issue we approached the topic of Mosul. Now we want to cover the reasons and results of the genocidal attack against the Êzidî Kurds and the bloodbath threats against the Shiite Turkmen, Kakay and Shabek Kurds and against Christian Assyrians.

 

ISIS (its original name was Tevhid and Jihad) came into being in 2003 as an Al-Qaeda organization claiming to fight the American occupation in Iraq. Besides many Ba'athist and islamic organizations they tried to assert themselves. When the Sunnite Arabic tribes, particularly those lead by the 'awakening council', withdrew their support and changed sides to collaborating Iraqi government,  the organization of ISIS eventually got liquidated. Their foundation leaders as Zerkavi and Ömer al Bagdadi were murdered by the USA and the Iraqi Government.

 

This pan-Islamism organization considers Shiites to be illegitimate and enemies of Islam and therefore murders them. It attacked the religious funeral services and mosques of Shiite Arabs and killed hundreds of them. This does not contradict with their ideology. After growing stronger initially it was heavily weakened and started to fight in the Syrian civil war against the Assad regime in 2011.

These Islamist combat organizations were supported by the regional reactionary states as the Saudi Kingdom, Turkey, Jordan, Qatar and furthermore by the USA and the European imperialists in every possible way. Finances, logistics, weapons and military education were offered to this organization. Initially under the name of Al-Nusra Front, later as ISIS this organization also profited from this. It came to the fore during the war through the liquidation of other Islamist organizations and other competitors. This time they were promoted by the Turkish reactionary leaders in order to place them at the border to Turkey and eventually were released against the Rojava revolution and the peoples of Rojava. Turkey supported the reactionary combat organizations, including ISIS, with 2000 trucks of weapons. This fact was also mentioned by Hakan Fidan, the boss of MIT , at a meeting between MIT, the army and then minister for war and foreign relations Davutoğlu. And the current minister-president Davutoğlu confirmed it.

 

Organizations depending on Al Qaeda as ISIS, Al-Nusra and other islamist organizations grew big in the reactionary Syrian civil war because of the generous support of imperialist and regional reactionary states. This generous support and the vast growth of the ten-years-old Islamist political movement lead to an extraordinary development of ISIS under its new name, Islamic State. Yet, this development was pushed back by two forces. On the one hand, it suffered a defeat by YPG, the protection force of the Rojava revolution, when it fought them to create an Islamic state in Syria's north. On the other hand, it was driven back by Hezbollah form Lebanon, which intervened in favour of Syria in the conflict. This withdrawl particularly took place this year. In the Iraqi power struggle ISIS was put to the foreground once again as  the vanguard figure by the reactionary regional powers. It developed saltatorily. The determining forces in the Iraqi power struggle were the reactionary regional forces from Saudi Arabia to Turkey. They wanted to bring down Maliki and form a central Iraqi power, which should concede the Sunnites federal rights. The American and European imperialists supported this.

This way and through the political-military alliance with the Arab Sunnite tribes ISIS seized Mosul. Afterwards it conquered other Sunnite cities and started the genocide against the Êzidî. It also besieged the Shiite Turkmen and threatened them with genocide.

The occupation of the Êzidî Kurd's homeland, Shingal, and the fact that the Peshmerga left the region without fighting were results of an agreement between the reactionary front of the Sunnite states in the region. First it looked as on base of the agreement Kirkuk should be seized and Shingal be given to ISIS. Until the conflicts following the occupation of Mahmur, ISIS forces only attacked the Talabani-Peshmerga, but not those of Barzani. This is another proof for the possibility of such an agreement.

 

The situation changed when ISIS started to commit a genocide in Shingal and to turn women into slaves. YPG came a long way to oppose the genocide when ISIS, ignoring the agreement, seized Mahmur and therefore threatened the capital of the Kurdish autonomous regions Hewler. The defensive force of revolutionary Rojava, YPG, was the first group to reach the Shingal mountains and prevented the murdering of tens of thousands Êzidî Kurds thanks to their heroic resistance. YPG kept on fighting ISIS to form a 'security corridor' from the Shingal mountains to Rojava. They transported more than 100.000 Êzidî Kurds from the Shingal mountains to Rojava and from Rojava back to the region of Iraqi Kurdistan. The fighters of our party, the MLCP, also participated in this conflicts. It also sent its fighters together with YPG and HPG to the Shingal mountains to fight there.

 

The Barzani leadership, Saudi Arabia, the USA and Europe started to complement the sucessfull resistance of YPG, when the situation changed. Maliki was not in power anymore. Thus, it was not necessary to support ISIS anymore either. Thus, they will fight the imperialist war making it look as 'humanitarian' help, in order to make the sympathy of people grow.

The forces of the Islamic State are to be destroyed widely and to suffer a defeat. The Islamic State will propably be turned into a Sunnite federation and in Syria it will be smashed by the forces fighting with Asad.

 

It is possible to overcome the problem of ISIS and such reactionary religious movements and the enforcement of such movements due to the imperialist occupation through the continuous popular revolutionary struggles. PKK , the vanguard of the Kurdish people and the national liberation movement, face this opportunity due to the forces they currently posess; and PFLP (Popular Liberation Front of Palestine) can play this role in Palestine. The only solution is to support the struggle of this forces internationally and develop practical struggles, as our party, the MLCP, that participates in the Rojava revolution and the resistance of Shingal, does. This way we will create an alternative to the occupation by the reactionary forces in our region. Doing so, we will prepare and spread the regional revolution.

 

 

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 01 September / Internationale Bulletin / No. 143

 

ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Levant) has seized Mosul easily and proclaimed the Islamic State on 10th July. Before and after the proclamation of the state it advanced in direction of Mosul-Hewler-Kirkuk-Bagdad. On 3rd August it attacked the Kurdish emigrant camps Mahmur, Cezaa and Kobani in  Shingal, the connection route to Rojava.

 

ISIS (now under the name of Islamic State) has not only attacked Shingal because it's on the road leading to Rojava, but also because it differs religiously. The occupation was easy to realize because Barzani's Peshmerga  had left the city in August and thereby offered it ISIS.

The religious beliefs of the Êzidî Kurds are very old. The religion of the  800.000 Êzidî Kurds, living in Iraq, differs from Islam, Christianity and Judaismus. In the past Yazidism was widespread among the Kurds and their neighbour peoples; it arose from Zoroastrianism. Today it's common among the Kurds.

 

This is the 73rd genocidal attack on the  Êzidî Kurds; they call it a law in their history.

The Islamic State has become the latest perpetrator of genocide against the Shingal Kurds. It murdered thousands of Kurds, young and old, children and women. It was also intent on killing the hundreds of thousands who fled into the Shingal mountains. Yet it did not reach this goal because YPG (People's Protection Units of Rojava) opposed it. Anyhow Islamic State attacked the villages in the lowlands surrounding Shingal and murdered young and old that were not able or did not want to leave their villages. It captured thousands of women turning them into Cariye (slaves), raped them and offered them on the slave markets. It wants to attack the villages in the lowlands, liberated by YPG, again, chase away the Êzidî and claim their homeland as part of a Sunnite-Arabic islamic state.

 

In the last issue we approached the topic of Mosul. Now we want to cover the reasons and results of the genocidal attack against the Êzidî Kurds and the bloodbath threats against the Shiite Turkmen, Kakay and Shabek Kurds and against Christian Assyrians.

 

ISIS (its original name was Tevhid and Jihad) came into being in 2003 as an Al-Qaeda organization claiming to fight the American occupation in Iraq. Besides many Ba'athist and islamic organizations they tried to assert themselves. When the Sunnite Arabic tribes, particularly those lead by the 'awakening council', withdrew their support and changed sides to collaborating Iraqi government,  the organization of ISIS eventually got liquidated. Their foundation leaders as Zerkavi and Ömer al Bagdadi were murdered by the USA and the Iraqi Government.

 

This pan-Islamism organization considers Shiites to be illegitimate and enemies of Islam and therefore murders them. It attacked the religious funeral services and mosques of Shiite Arabs and killed hundreds of them. This does not contradict with their ideology. After growing stronger initially it was heavily weakened and started to fight in the Syrian civil war against the Assad regime in 2011.

These Islamist combat organizations were supported by the regional reactionary states as the Saudi Kingdom, Turkey, Jordan, Qatar and furthermore by the USA and the European imperialists in every possible way. Finances, logistics, weapons and military education were offered to this organization. Initially under the name of Al-Nusra Front, later as ISIS this organization also profited from this. It came to the fore during the war through the liquidation of other Islamist organizations and other competitors. This time they were promoted by the Turkish reactionary leaders in order to place them at the border to Turkey and eventually were released against the Rojava revolution and the peoples of Rojava. Turkey supported the reactionary combat organizations, including ISIS, with 2000 trucks of weapons. This fact was also mentioned by Hakan Fidan, the boss of MIT , at a meeting between MIT, the army and then minister for war and foreign relations Davutoğlu. And the current minister-president Davutoğlu confirmed it.

 

Organizations depending on Al Qaeda as ISIS, Al-Nusra and other islamist organizations grew big in the reactionary Syrian civil war because of the generous support of imperialist and regional reactionary states. This generous support and the vast growth of the ten-years-old Islamist political movement lead to an extraordinary development of ISIS under its new name, Islamic State. Yet, this development was pushed back by two forces. On the one hand, it suffered a defeat by YPG, the protection force of the Rojava revolution, when it fought them to create an Islamic state in Syria's north. On the other hand, it was driven back by Hezbollah form Lebanon, which intervened in favour of Syria in the conflict. This withdrawl particularly took place this year. In the Iraqi power struggle ISIS was put to the foreground once again as  the vanguard figure by the reactionary regional powers. It developed saltatorily. The determining forces in the Iraqi power struggle were the reactionary regional forces from Saudi Arabia to Turkey. They wanted to bring down Maliki and form a central Iraqi power, which should concede the Sunnites federal rights. The American and European imperialists supported this.

This way and through the political-military alliance with the Arab Sunnite tribes ISIS seized Mosul. Afterwards it conquered other Sunnite cities and started the genocide against the Êzidî. It also besieged the Shiite Turkmen and threatened them with genocide.

The occupation of the Êzidî Kurd's homeland, Shingal, and the fact that the Peshmerga left the region without fighting were results of an agreement between the reactionary front of the Sunnite states in the region. First it looked as on base of the agreement Kirkuk should be seized and Shingal be given to ISIS. Until the conflicts following the occupation of Mahmur, ISIS forces only attacked the Talabani-Peshmerga, but not those of Barzani. This is another proof for the possibility of such an agreement.

 

The situation changed when ISIS started to commit a genocide in Shingal and to turn women into slaves. YPG came a long way to oppose the genocide when ISIS, ignoring the agreement, seized Mahmur and therefore threatened the capital of the Kurdish autonomous regions Hewler. The defensive force of revolutionary Rojava, YPG, was the first group to reach the Shingal mountains and prevented the murdering of tens of thousands Êzidî Kurds thanks to their heroic resistance. YPG kept on fighting ISIS to form a 'security corridor' from the Shingal mountains to Rojava. They transported more than 100.000 Êzidî Kurds from the Shingal mountains to Rojava and from Rojava back to the region of Iraqi Kurdistan. The fighters of our party, the MLCP, also participated in this conflicts. It also sent its fighters together with YPG and HPG to the Shingal mountains to fight there.

 

The Barzani leadership, Saudi Arabia, the USA and Europe started to complement the sucessfull resistance of YPG, when the situation changed. Maliki was not in power anymore. Thus, it was not necessary to support ISIS anymore either. Thus, they will fight the imperialist war making it look as 'humanitarian' help, in order to make the sympathy of people grow.

The forces of the Islamic State are to be destroyed widely and to suffer a defeat. The Islamic State will propably be turned into a Sunnite federation and in Syria it will be smashed by the forces fighting with Asad.

 

It is possible to overcome the problem of ISIS and such reactionary religious movements and the enforcement of such movements due to the imperialist occupation through the continuous popular revolutionary struggles. PKK , the vanguard of the Kurdish people and the national liberation movement, face this opportunity due to the forces they currently posess; and PFLP (Popular Liberation Front of Palestine) can play this role in Palestine. The only solution is to support the struggle of this forces internationally and develop practical struggles, as our party, the MLCP, that participates in the Rojava revolution and the resistance of Shingal, does. This way we will create an alternative to the occupation by the reactionary forces in our region. Doing so, we will prepare and spread the regional revolution.