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Two northern Arizona tribes this week condemned the start of operations at a uranium mine just south of the Grand Canyon. he statements came after Denver-based company Energy Fuels Inc. announced last month that operations at its Pinyon Plain Mine had commenced.
“It is with heavy hearts that we must acknowledge that our greatest fear has come true,” a statement from the Havasupai Tribal Council read.
Meanwhile, Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren said in a statement that mining remains opposed “by all neighboring tribes that have forever called Grand Canyon their home.”
There is a long and controversial history of uranium mining within northern Arizona.
The Pinyon Plain Mine, previously known as the Canyon Mine, sits above the Redwall-Muav aquifer, which acts as a source of water for countless seeps and springs throughout the Grand Canyon, and is the sole source of drinking water for the Havasupai.
Throughout the Cold War era, nearly 30 million tons of uranium ore were extracted and often processed from Navajo Nation lands. Hundreds of those mines, often near Navajo communities, were then abandoned by the companies operating them.
More than 500 contaminated sites remain across the Navajo Nation.
She and her family, consisting of her father, mother, 4 sisters, and the village’s people, were kidnapped by ISIS mercenaries
The young Yazidi woman who was kidnapped by ISIS mercenaries and who the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) managed to free from al-Hol Camp on Sunday said that ISIS gave her the choice between converting to the Islamic religion and being killed, and she recounted the torture, slavery and rape she was exposed to over the course of 9 years.
On Sunday (February 4), the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) were able to finally rescue a young Yazidi woman from al-Hol Camp as part of the third phase of the “Security and Humanitarian” operation launched by the Internal Security Forces pf the Rojava Revolution with the support of the Syrian Democratic Forces on January 27 of last year.
Yazidi Women’s Union: we owe to fighters’ sacrifices.6 Feb 2024 “We affirm that we, in the Yazidi Women’s Union in Rojava, will remain alongside our fighters and support their resistance and efforts in all places.
The young Yazidi woman, called “Kovan Eido Khorto,” is now 24 years old, from the village of Hardan in Şengal(Sinjar, Southern Kurdistan in northern Iraq).. She and her family, consisting of her father, mother, 4 sisters, and the village’s people, were kidnapped by ISIS mercenaries while they were trying to flee from the mercenaries in 2014.
Kovan was 14 years old when she was kidnapped by ISIS. She was taken with the other kidnappers to an area near the Syrian border, and was held in a school for 9 days.
After 9 days had passed, ISIS mercenaries separated the children and young women from their families. They transferred the young women, after dividing them into groups, to different areas of Iraq, while Kovan and a number of other young women were transferred to Mosul and then to Tal Afar.
While speaking to ANHA agency, Kovan indicated that she was raped by an ISIS mercenary called “Muwafaq,” and he took her to his family’s home in Tal Afar, then handed her over to another mercenary who took her to Mosul.
Sinjar massacre.. Mass genocide and kidnapping carried out by ISIS
The Sinjar massacre marked the beginning of the genocide of Yazidis by ISIL, the killing and abduction of thousands of Yazidi men, women and children. It took place in August 2014 in Sinjar city and Sinjar District in Iraq’s Nineveh Governorate and was perpetrated by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, vowing to kill them all as infidels. Wikipedia. As Iraq and the US looked on the Kurdish PKK guerillas intervened and saved the Yazidis from genocide to the mountains, but 1000’s of women were taken as slaves.
After Mosul, two other mercenaries nicknamed «Abu Dunia and Abu Abd» transported her to Salah al-Din Governorate, where the mercenary «Abu Dunia and his family» hides.
According to Kovan, an ISIS leader known as “Abu Jaafar (Haider)” communicated with the mercenary “Abu Dunia” and ordered him to bring Kovan to Fallujah and hand her over to him, who raped, beat, and handcuffed her many times.
During this period, Kovan tried to escape from the mercenaries, but they found out about her and started beating and harming her.
Two years after that, the leader, “Abu Jaafar,” handed Kovan over to another mercenary called “Abu Radwan,” who in turn married her to another mercenary called “Abu Hudhayfah.”
The tragedy of Kovan did not end in Iraq. The mercenary “Abu Hudhayfah” headed with Kovan to the Syrian city of Albu Kamal, and during this period, “Abu Hudhayfah” was killed in the desert of the Syrian desert, and the leader “Abu Jaafar” was also killed during that period, so that she could be married to another mercenary called «Abu Asia Al-Jumaili.»
With the start of the campaign to liberate Deir ez-Zor from ISIS mercenaries in 2018, Kovn moved to al-Hol Camp designated for the families of ISIS mercenaries, where Kovan explained that ISIS mercenaries were threatening her and all the Yazidi women they had kidnapped with death if they did not convert to the Islamic religion, and they were describing them as “infidels.”
When we asked her why she did not reveal her true identity after all these years while she was in al-Hol Camp, Kovan confirmed that she was afraid because she was exposed to threats from mercenaries.
The kidnapped Yazidi woman thanked the Women’s Protection Units for freeing her from the hands of the mercenaries, and called on all Yazidi women kidnapped by ISIS to reveal their identity and return to their homes and families to be saved from the injustice they were subjected to.
She stated that she did not know anything about her family, whether they were still kidnapped by ISIS or if anything had happened to them, but she did not give up hope and hoped to meet them soon.
T/Satt. ANHA
Kovan, the Yazidi woman rescued from ISIS, manages to communicate with her family
The young Yazidi woman who was kidnapped by ISIS mercenaries was able to communicate with her family in Şengal by phone after 9 years.
The Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) , in coordination with the Şengal Protection Units,secured a phone call for the young woman, Kovan Eido, with her family in Şengal, so that she could communicate with them after a separation of 9 years.
YPJ: Liberation of Kovan represents painful blow to ISIS
The Internal Security Forces completed the third phase of the “Humanity and Security” operation, on Tuesday, which the forces launched last January 27, led by the Women’s Protection Units and in support of the Syrian Democratic Forces.
The aim was to eliminate new ISIS cells inside al-Hol camp. After the SDF multi-ethnic Rojava revolutionaries liberated NE Syria from the ISIS Caliphate, backed by international air power the jihadi prisoners and their families were housed in Al Hol Camp and the SDF has had to guard them ever since, with few States willing to repatriate their fighters.
In an interview with ANHA agency the spokeswoman of YPJ’s Media Center Rokan Jamal said : “There was an urgent need and necessity to launch the third phase of the “Humanity and Security” operation, and one of the most prominent results of this operation was the liberation of A Yazidi woman from the mercenaries who kidnapped her many years ago.»
According to a statement by the Internal Security Forces, 85 mercenaries were arrested, including the so-called “first Shari’i in Al-Hol Camp,” nicknamed “Abu Abdul Hamid,”who was the leader directly responsible for spreading Takfiri thought and issuing death fatwas and threats against the camp’s residents.
The Internal Security Forces eliminated the so-called «Abu Sufyan al-Lahibi», the leader of ISIS cells within the camp and its surroundings, and another mercenary accompanying him.
The Women’s Protection Units also managed to liberate a Yazidi woman, «Kovan Edo Khorto», 9 years after she was kidnapped by ISIS mercenaries.
Rokan confirmed that the liberation of the young Yazidi woman named Kovan Edo Khorto from the village of Hardan in Shingal from ISIS mercenaries is a matter of pride for the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ).
Rokan, of the YPJ, explained that the young Yazidi woman who was rescued by the Women’s Protection Units on Sunday (February 4) from the hands of ISIS mercenaries, “had been suffering for 5 years here in al-Hol camp, as the mercenaries were pressuring her not to reveal her identity.»
Rokan touched on the use of women by ISIS mercenaries and cells to spread extremist ideas inside al-Hol camp, and said: “Unfortunately, this role is assigned to women, especially in ISIS women section to spread extremist ideas, and this is a clearly visible danger.
We tried to deter this danger by carrying out such these operations.
Regarding the role of YPJ in the third phase of the operation, Rokan confirmed: YPJ played an effective role in protecting women from the evils of ISIS cells, while the other role was liberation women of oppression.”
Rokan stressed that their struggle will continue to liberate all Yazidi women who are still kidnapped by mercenaries.
Rokan referred to the crimes taking place in Afrin, Sere Kaniye, Azaz, Al-Bab, and occupied Jarabulus, invaded by Turkey and now beibf occupied and ‘ethnically cleansed’ of the Kurdish population by Turkish paid extremist gangs (SNA). She stressed that the units will continue their efforts to free and liberate all women from the dark and occupying forces.»
This Yazidi Womens Brigade joined the multi-ethnic SDF as they closed in on the ISIS HQ in Raqqa in 2018.»We can not remain impassive in the face of the genocide committed by Erdogan and his fascist state against the Kurdish people…«
Abdullah Öcalan, founder of the PKK [Photo by Halil Uysal – Archive of the International Initiative «Freedom for Abdullah Ocalan – Peace in Kurdistan / CC BY-SA 3.0]
On October 10 of last year, 2023, a global campaign was launched in 74 centers around the world under the slogan “Freedom for Abdullah Ocalan, the political solution to the Kurdish issue.”
In this context, a series of events began in northern Kurdistan and Turkey to support this campaign.
Under the same campaign slogan, a number of activists in Turkish prisons in Turkey and northern Kurdistan began a hunger strike last November 27.
In the cities of Wan, Amed, Merdin, Mersin, Adana, Istanbul and Izmir, justice sit-ins continue under the slogan “We will break isolation for justice, and we will be the voice of prisons for peace,” which were organized by the families of the hunger strikers.
The political prisoners are carrying out a rotational hunger strike, calling for the liberation of Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), and a resolution to the Kurdish predicament.
The hunger strike will end next February 15, according to the strikers. February 15 signifies the day Öcalan was brought to Turkey from Kenya, where he sought refuge after months on the run in 1999.
Öcalan has written a series of works which have directly molded and extended the Kurdish fight against severe repression. He is credited with moving the PKK from Stalinism to a unique horizontally powered communal system called Democratic Confederalism, ending calls for a new state and crucially empowering women at all levels.
Ocalan is lauded as the «Nelson Mandela» of the Kurds, and despite being imprisoned now for 25 years has huge moral support and led the PKK in two long ceasefires and a ‘Kurdish Spring’.
Finally Turkey cracked down on the Kurdish ceasefire, bombing Kurdish cities in Turkey and launching three invasions into Syria, colonizing and ‘ethnic cleansing‘ the Kurdish population of Rojava into internal refugee camps.
The ongoing campaign, mirrored in countries like Germany and France, aims to draw attention to the Kurdish issue, emphasizing the pursuit of a comprehensive solution. (TY/VK)
Reyhan Gök presented a report prepared by the Coordination for Monitoring and Follow-up of Hunger Strikes and listed the demands of the hunger strikers as:
‘1) An end to human rights violations in prisons in Turkey; 2) Fixing of the aggravated conditions of execution; 3) An end to the long isolation of Abdullah Öcalan in İmralı High Security Closed Prison, family and lawyer visits; and 4) A democratic solution to the Kurdish question.’
Israel hasn’t responded to accusations by the Palestine Red Crescent Society that its forces purposely destroyed the ambulance it sent to rescue Hind Rajab, aged six.
Israeli forces ‘deliberately targeted’ medics sent to rescue little girl
Body of missing Palestinian girl Hind Rajab found in destroyed car
Hind Rajab, one of over 10,000 kids murdered by Israel so far, was a six year old Palestinian girl whose story went viral when she desperately appealed for help on a phone when injured with her dead or dying family after coming under Israeli fire, she was finally found dead after the Israelis pulled back after 12 days, along with two brave medics in an ambulance sent to find her.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society published a video showing the total wreckage of the ambulance that was sent to rescue her.
The girl spent hours on the phone with dispatchers begging for help, with the sound of shooting echoing around.
“The occupation deliberately targeted the Red Crescent crew despite prior coordination to allow the ambulance to arrive at the site to rescue Hind,” the Red Crescent said in a statement.
After deciding it was safe to approach the area, dispatchers sent an ambulance with two crew, Youssef Zeino and Ahmed al-Madhoon.Contact was soon lost with both the ambulance team and Hind 12 days ago. The bodies of the young girl and five other relatives were located in their bullet-ridden car hours ago.
Israel’s war on Gaza live: Gaza death toll passes 28,000
By Linah Alsaafin Published On 10 Feb 202410 Feb 2024 Gaza’s health ministry says 117 Palestinians have been killed and 152 wound during the past 24 hours. As Israel intensifies its attacks on Rafah, people are now escaping to the central part of the Gaza Strip about 20km (eight miles) away.
Israeli forces continue their siege of Nasser Hospital
Al Jazeera correspondent has reported that Israeli occupation forces continue their siege of the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis for the 20th day and have reached its northern gate.
The occupation forces have been besieging us for 20 days and we are suffering from a shortage of food and drink,” Nahidh Abu Tamiyya, the head of the surgical department, told Al Jazeera.
According to Wafa news agency, medical sources reported that two Palestinians have been killed by an Israeli sniper – one in front of the reception gate, and the other in the emergency department.
The same sources added that medical teams could not move between the complex’s buildings due to the snipers, and stressed that the lives of 300 health personnel, 450 patients and wounded, and 10,000 displaced people inside the complex were threatened….
NOTE.. 2nd half of this post disappeared due to an internet cut !
included details of start of great Rafah massacre and Israeli/US plot to drive survivors of over 1 million fleeing refugees across the border into Egypt
El multimillonario respondió al presidente de EE.UU., Joe Biden, quien afirmó que si el Congreso no aprueba la ayuda a Kiev, esto será casi “negligencia criminal”. El propietario de X, Tesla y SpaceX, Elon Musk, comentó este sábado que EE.UU. tenía que haber parado el conflicto en Ucrania hace un año.
The war that Israel has been waging against the unarmed Palestinian nation over the past months (barely reported in the European media) is now down to statistics – the countless dead – countless wounded – and countless missing, buried under the rubble, are so great that they no longer register.
Abdullah Öcalan, founder of the PKK [Photo by Halil Uysal – Archive of the International Initiative “Freedom for Abdullah Ocalan – Peace in Kurdistan / CC BY-SA 3.0]
On October 10 of last year, 2023, a global campaign was launched in 74 centers around the world under the slogan “Freedom for Abdullah Ocalan, the political solution to the Kurdish issue.”
In this context, a series of events began in northern Kurdistan and Turkey to support this campaign.
Under the same campaign slogan, a number of activists in Turkish prisons in Turkey and northern Kurdistan began a hunger strike last November 27.
In the cities of Wan, Amed, Merdin, Mersin, Adana, Istanbul and Izmir, justice sit-ins continue under the slogan “We will break isolation for justice, and we will be the voice of prisons for peace,” which were organized by the families of the hunger strikers.
The political prisoners are carrying out a rotational hunger strike, calling for the liberation of Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), and a resolution to the Kurdish predicament.
The hunger strike will end next February 15, according to the strikers. February 15 signifies the day Öcalan was brought to Turkey from Kenya, where he sought refuge after months on the run in 1999.
Öcalan has written a series of works which have directly molded and extended the Kurdish fight against severe repression. He is credited with moving the PKK from Stalinism to a unique horizontally powered communal system called Democratic Confederalism, ending calls for a new state and crucially empowering women at all levels.
Ocalan is lauded as the “Nelson Mandela” of the Kurds, and despite being imprisoned now for 25 years has huge moral support and led the PKK in two long ceasefires and a ‘Kurdish Spring’.
Finally Turkey cracked down on the Kurdish ceasefire, bombing Kurdish cities in Turkey and launching three invasions into Syria, colonizing and ‘ethnic cleansing‘ the Kurdish population of Rojava into internal refugee camps.
The ongoing campaign, mirrored in countries like Germany and France, aims to draw attention to the Kurdish issue, emphasizing the pursuit of a comprehensive solution. (TY/VK)
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