A suspected chemical weapons attack on April 8 killed at least 60 people and wounded more than 1000 in the Syrian town of Douma, the last rebel-held town in Eastern Ghouta. The Syrian opposition blamed the Assad government for carrying out the attacks, but Syria denied having any role. The chemical attack came one day after Syrian forces launched an air and ground assault on Douma.
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The Democratic Autonomous Administration of Afrin Canton in Syria鈥檚 north, which is resisting Turkey鈥檚 occupation, has warned all Syrians that Turkey鈥檚 murderous attack aims at ethnic cleansing.
Turkey鈥檚 murderous invasion of the Afrin canton in Syria鈥檚 north, backed explicitly or implicitly by Russia and the US, succeeded in taking the canton鈥檚 capital on March 18. But Kamran Martin says this is far from the end for the Kurdish-led resistance in defence of the democratic revolution in the region.
The Kurdish Red Crescent reported on February 27 that at least 348 civilians had died in the conflict begun by Turkey鈥檚 January 20 invasion of northern Syria鈥檚 small enclave of Afrin.
The Afrin canton in Northern Syria is under sustained assault from invading Turkish forces and allied Islamist gangs.聽
The Turkish invasion, accompanied by reports of massacres and use of chemical weapons, aims to destroy the progressive, democratic Kurdish-led revolution in Syria鈥檚 north, which places women鈥檚 liberation at its centre.
Northern Syria (also known by its Kurdish name of 鈥淩ojava鈥) has been the scene of a social revolution with women鈥檚 liberation at its centre in recent years. However, it has come under constant attack.
When a democratic uprising broke out against the Syrian dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad in 2011, the regime responded with brutal repression. Aided by defections from the Syrian Army, this helped turn the mass protest movement into the armed conflict that wracks Syria today.
The People鈥檚 Democratic Party (HDP), a broad-based left-wing group largely initiated by Kurdish forces in Turkey, has faced the full brunt of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan鈥檚 authoritarian crackdown.
More than 10,000 HDP members have been arrested, along with its leaders and dozens of elected officials 鈥 often on trumped-up charges of 鈥渟upporting terrorism鈥 in retaliation for the HDP鈥檚 support for the struggle of the Kurdish community for democratic rights.
The defeat of ISIS in Syria last year raised hopes that the long-running war that has displaced more than two-thirds of the population might be coming to an end. However, the attempted Turkish invasion of the Afrin region of Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan), which began on January 20, has underlined that the war is in fact intensifying.
Women from the Tirbesipiye-Cizire Canton in northern Syria (known as 鈥淩ojava鈥 in Kurdish)聽held a women-only demonstration through the city centre on February 9.
The marchers expressed their support for the resistance by women and others in the Afrin canton in Rojava against the fascist invasion from Turkey and Islamic gangs, which began last month 鈥 and in support of the feminist, multi-ethnic Rojava Revolution.
Thousands of solidarity activists from all across the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria聽defied a threat of bombardment by the Turkish State on February 6 to stand in solidarity with the resistance in Afrin.
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