The news came into our lives today like a dagger through the heart. Two precious friends, some of those women who are the heart and backbone of the revolution in North and East Syria, have been targeted and assassinated. Hind Latif Al Khadir (Head of the Economy committee of Til Shayir) and Sa’da Faysal Al Hermas (Co-president of Til Shayir People’s Council), had previously received death threats from ISIS. This never stopped them in their work, the work of strengthening women and their society, of weaving the fabric of an alternative future. Women in politics and community organising in North East Syria are a walking revolution: fighting for their society by transforming it, leading the way by example.
Their murders were brutal, calculated, and, tragically, not unique. This is the next in a line of targeted killings of the women who are the vanguard of the women’s revolution. ISIS and…
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