Women’s Day is the day of red carnations: Syrian feminist activist
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – On Monday, the Syrian feminist activist, Farah al-Tabe’I said, life offers no moments of joy and happiness even on the Women’s International Day.
“In 2017, we decided to cancel the office ceremony and give women red roses and wish them a happy Women’s Day,” al-Tabe’i told North Press.
“However, while we were giving roses, shells fell on us, so we left our roses behind and fled quickly. I was living in Jaramana neighborhood then,” she added.
“That night, I could not sleep with the sounds of the shells in my ears, while the square was blood-red as a result of a shell falling on a room in a house whose victims were a young woman with her young daughter. She was living with her husband in one of the apartments overlooking the square.”
“That evening I told the executive director that we had failed to complete the distribution of the red roses, and that we had succeeded in receiving death shells for the Syrian,” she noted.
She pointed out that the director expressed regret and compassion for the dead.
She stressed, “Life offers no moments of joy and happiness even on the Women’s International Day that makes all humanity happy.”
The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria held-areas witnessed celebrations on Women’s International Day which falls on March 8, and is celebrated worldwide every year.