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“We are the heiresses of witches and healers. There is an evolution: today they call us feminazis..”

El Periódico Barcelona 26 de enero del 2022 42 Comentario

The Catalan parliament has passed a resolution to pardon up to 1,000 people – the majority of them women – condemned for the crime of witchcraft in the region 400 years ago.

The resolution “repairs” the memory of the women convicted of witchcraft in Catalonia and condemnss the “misogynistic persecution”.

It calls on the town councils to review the gazetteer of their streets to incorporate the names of these women.

Thousands of women were condemned during witch-hunts that persisted well into 18th century

The move follows similar gestures in Scotland, Switzerland and Norway after more than 100 European historians signed a manifesto titled: They weren’t witches, they were women.

The resolution, which follows a campaign in the local history journal Sapiens, was supported by the leftwing and nationalist parties in the parliament. But the Socialists refused to sign, the right wing PP abstained and the fascist VOX voted against.

Commenting on a TV3 documentary entitled Witches, the Big Lie, the Catalan president, Pere Aragonès, described the witch-hunts as “institutionalised femicide”.

It is estimated that between 1580 and 1630 about 50,000 people were condemned to death for witchcraft across Europe, of whom about 80% were women.

While witch-hunts raged across northern Europe, in Spain the Inquisition had its hands full rooting out heresy among Jews and Muslims who had been forcibly converted to Christianity. The Inquisition was sceptical about allegations of witchcraft.

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Catalonia was the exception, however, and witch-hunts persisted well into the 18th century there. What is thought to be the first European law against witchcraft was passed in Lleida in 1424.

YPJ women fighters watch 100’s of defeated ISIS terrorists surrender: ‘We defeated ISIS mercenaries once again‘

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) took full control of the al-Sina’a prison on Wednesday

Islamic State group fighters, who surrendered after clashing with Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in Hassakeh, northeast Syria, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022 © Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, via AP

The Kurdish-led SDF have beaten off Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorists at the al-Sina’a prison in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasaka. 

In a tweet on Wednesday, spokesman Farhad Shami confirmed the victory, stating that all IS militants had surrendered just hours after 500 handed themselves over following earlier clashes.

“Game Over Daesh,” he wrote in a subsequent tweet.

Shami shared photos from the prison in the aftermath of the battle.

The SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) is a coalition army formed by the Rojava women and men’s defense militia’s (YPJ and YPG). But soon it became a multi ethnic democratic army including dozens of defense militias including Muslim, Christians, Azadis, Turkmen, Syriac, etc. The SDF is responsible for defeating and expelling the ISIS terrorist regime, with US led Coalition air support, and promoting cooperative industry, revolutionary direct democracy and women’s equality in the AANES controlled area, still under embargo and daily Turkish attacks.

SDF announces the names of eleven of its fighters martyred in Hesekê. The SDF gighters and volunteers suffered at least 17 dead in the battle against ISIS

850 children and minors the UN children’s agency believes to have been caught in clashes at the prison complex.

UNICEF has registered its concern for the fate of the children who had been living alongside some 5,000 prisoners since it was seized by militants last Thursday.

SDF responds to UNICEF..SDF called on the UNICEF and humanitarian organizations to provide, through a clear action plan, sustainable support to the Autonomous Administration to construct rehabilitation centers that meet humanitarian and international standards.

“Every day counts. It’s very hard to even imagine what atrocities these children are witnessing,” UNICEF’s Middle East and North Africa regional advocacy and communications head, Juliette Touma, said on Tuesday. 

The children, who had reportedly been detained for suspected links to IS during the US-backed campaign in 2019, were being held in a dormitory at the facility. The SDF said IS militants had been holed up in the building. 

Seven US Navy sailors were injured when the F-35C Lightning II stealth plane suffered a “landing mishap” during continuing operations to surround China, adding to hundreds of severe illegal financial sanctions, and threatening China’s 1400 million people. with Nuclear War. Fortunately the pilot escaped alive.

Three Navy personnel were transported to the Philippines for medical treatment, while another four were treated at sea

While the pilot of the plane was soon rescued by a military helicopter after ejecting, the aircraft itself has never been recovered.

At the time of the latest accident, Navy supercarriers USS Carl Vinson and USS Abraham Lincoln, among other US ships and aircraft, were engaged in the fleet of military threatening China along with hundreds of illegal financial sanctions.

While the US and China waste billions on war preparations millions in nearby Phillipines fight for life after Super Typhoon Rai destroyed or damaged a “staggering” number of houses as it tore across the Philippines in December, leaving more than 400 people dead.

“I can confirm the aircraft impacted the flight deck during landing and subsequently fell to the water,” said US Navy spokesperson Lieutenant Nicholas Lingo on Tuesday.

Rear Admiral Dan Martin boasted in a statement that the threats to China “highlights the U.S. Navy’s ability to deliver overwhelming maritime force…”

However, a total of seven sailors were injured during the incident, with three requiring a medical evacuation to the Philippines. The three sailors are reportedly in stable condition.

Asked about the possibility of China salvaging the aircraft Lingo said, “We cannot speculate on what the PRC’s intentions are on this matter.”