SORGÜL ŞÊXO

Hasakah- Til Temir, also known as Tell Tamer, is a town of Hasakah, northeastern Syria. Due to its strategic location, it has been subjected to genocidal attacks many times. One of these attacks occurred after three truck bombs targeted a public market, Palestine bazaar and a hospital belonging to the Heyva Sor a Kurd (Kurdish Red Crescent) on December 10, 2015.

More than 60 people, including doctors, nurses and children, were killed and more than 100 injured in the attacks. On October 20, 2012, the town was liberated from ISIS by the People's Defense Units (YPG).

NuJINHA spoke to the women, who lost their relatives in the attacks that took place in the town on December 10, 2015.

Şemsa Saedê lost her sister and two relatives in the attack on the hospital belonging to the Heyva Sor a Kurd. “My sister was a nurse at the hospital. When ISIS attacked the hospital, my two relatives were also at the hospital, visiting my sister. I lost my sister and two relatives in the attack. That day was a dark day for me. Til Temir is a small town but Kurdish, Arab and Syriac people live together there. They fought together to liberate their town from ISIS.”

‘We demand the prosecution of ISIS members’

Although nine years have passed since the attack, Şemsa Saedê remembers it as if it were yesterday. “Our wound has not healed, it is still bleeding. As the relatives of the martyrs, we demand the prosecution of ISIS members by an international tribunal. Whenever I look at their pictures on the wall, I remember that day. The Turkish attacks on our region continue. Erdoğan should not be happy because we will never leave our homeland.”

‘We have not found the dead body of my brother for nine years’

Şêxa Şermûx, an Arab woman in Til Temir, lost her brother in the attacks on the town in 2015. “The bloodiest attacks on the town occurred in 2015. The attacks targeted Syriac, Kurdish and Arab people,” she told us. “My brother was killed in one of the three truck bombs that targeted the hospital in 2015. We have not found the dead body of my brother for nine years. My brother was at the hospital to visit my sister, who worked as a nurse at the hospital.”

Şêxa Şermûx also demands the prosecution of ISIS members by an international tribunal for their crimes against humanity. “ISIS targeted civilians, including children and women in its attacks.”