Our women have sent their message and raised their children to carry cross and weapon – Syriac women
Qamishli –North-Press Agency
Reem Shamoun – Sargon Yousef
Messages of International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which comes on November 25 each year, continue to convey the reality of women in the world in light of suffering, abuses and sacrifice. Every woman in northeastern Syria expresses her message to the world in a different way.
Speaking to North-Press, Horo Nour, the official in the Female Sutoro Security Office (Assyrian Syriac Christian police force in al-Jazira region, northeastern Syria), she said: "In the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we, as Syriac Security Forces (Sutoro) send a message to the society and women in general, especially Syriac women saying that, women need to have will, power and determination, so that they can reach the stage of equality with men.”
“This message comes with the knowledge that, women have recently been able to participate with men in many fields, including political, economic, social, and especially militarily,” she stated.
She added that, "Women have been able to prove themselves they aren't creative in family, domestic or social matters only, but they also able to hold weapons to direct them against injustice and any aggression that threatens their society and women in general. Women has reached the stage of standing with men and sending the message that they want in this field.”
Anti-violence Syriac mothers have linked the amount of what women have presented in this war, where Noura Hanna said: "I'm a mother of a young man fighting on the fronts, who has a duty to defend the people of the region when this war started in our homeland Syria.”
"As mothers, when we don't encourage our children to these values to defend their regions, then we have no land, no people, no language and no history. We will scatter even if we go to Europe,” she added.
Sabah Shabo, who resembles Noura Hanna told North-Press that, she is proud of her son's work on the battlefront, adding: "When they ask me, don't you fear for him? I say: the Lord is with him.”
"I tell them that, my son holds weapon with one hand and the cross with the other, and defends his homeland with his comrades at the front. He also worked as a photographer in at the front to convey the displacement and destruction of Christian homes,” she added.
"Enough torment, we have passed through the massacres of Seyfo (The Assyrian Genocide by the Ottoman Turks), and now they are repeating it again. It is very difficult when the mother's door is knocked to tell her that your son is a martyr, a prisoner or injured. I tell every mother like me to be strong to strengthen her son there at the fronts", Shabo concluded.