The Name of Kurdish Women Will Always be Remembered in the Epics of Resistance
From the land of Derwêş and Edûlê, a young woman with a pure heart joined the struggle for freedom. Cîhan Hîvron (Lînda Xeyrî Hecî) became a fighter for her country, a resister for women’s freedom, a seeker of truth for a right and meaningful life.
Cîhan Hîvron, who was born in Shengal (Sinjar) into a patriotic Kurdish family committed to Yazidi values, got to know the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) more closely with the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrillas who ran to the help of the Yazidi community during the ISIS onslaught in 2014. Having witnessed the massacre and abduction of thousands of people and the migration of hundreds of thousands during the ISIS attack, Hîvron joined the resistance units in 2016 to avenge Yazidi women. She contributed to the cleansing of Shengal from the mercenaries, and after the withdrawal of the guerrillas from Shengal in 2018, she took to the mountains of Kurdistan.
Cîhan Hîvron received the first basic education at the Martyr Rojîn Gewda Academy, and better understood and deepened on the thoughts of Leader Apo [Abdullah Öcalan]. She set an example for her comrades with her deep devotion to the land of Kurdistan. With the strength of her love for her country, she took part in the forefront of every work and quickly adapted to the guerrilla life. Throughout her education, she learned with great curiosity and participated in discussions clearly and radically. She constantly read and improved herself in order to understand Leader Apo’s style, manner and pace. She attached as much importance to improving herself in the military field as she did to organisation and ideological development. For this reason, she participated in every military training and lesson on weapons and tactics with great enthusiasm. As a Yazidi woman, she wanted to be a strong example for all young girls in her community.
The guerrilla fighter Cîhan, who deeply felt the pain caused by the massacres committed against her people, the enslavement and sale of women, and leaving children without language, identity and culture, took Leader Apo’s ideas as a guide and moved towards her goal. After completing her academy education, she participated in practical work. With the training she received and the faith her comrades had in her, she participated in the struggle more actively. Guerrilla Cîhan was devoted to comradeship, her country and her people with an endless love. For the sake of this devotion, she did not spare any labour and sacrifice. She never closed her ears to the cries of the children of her country. She did not remain indifferent to the lamentations of the mothers of martyrs.
On the peaks of the mountains of Shengal, even in the most difficult moments of the war, she could see the light of hope on the faces of her people and continued her struggle every day with vows to realise this hope. She was a source of inspiration for all her comrades; with her positive energy she would add the colour of hope to their hearts, and with determination in her eyes she would tell them ‘Victory is ours, comrade’. Cîhan’s face was recorded in the hearts of her comrades and in the memory of her people with the most beautiful colours. As a guerrilla fighter who set an example to her comrades with her struggle, courage, resistance and sacrifice, she played a pioneering role in the freedom struggle of her people and did not succumb to any difficulties.
On 25 May 2019, during an enemy attack on the Medya Defence Zones, she was martyred together with a group of her comrades, becoming an example for young Kurdish women and especially for Yazidi women. She did not accept an aimless life; she had great goals and she continued her life in line with these goals. She took brave steps, struggled and never backed down. That is why guerrilla Cîhan will never be forgotten; her name will be remembered with great honour in the resistance epics of Kurdish women, among the heroes of the freedom struggle.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=17935