The Fight for Dignity – The History of Labor Day (Part 1)
Written by Ali Aksu for Ronahî In the 19th century, industrialization changed the face of society: Millions of agricultural workers were uprooted – through expropriation, the dissolution of traditional communal rights and the increasing concentration of land ownership in the hands of a few. Their livelihoods on the land disappeared, while large landowners and capital […]
Who are the Ezîdîs ? – One of the oldest ethno-religious communities in the world
A people from Mesopotamia The Ezîdis are an indigenous people of Mesopotamia. Today, due to genocidal attempts and persecutions throughout history, the Ezîdîs live scattered in different states, such as Turkey, Iraq, Armenia, but also in Europe and America. The main centre of Ezîdî life remains South Kurdistan, where to this day more than 350,000 […]
10 years after the Ezîdî genocide: what happened in 2014?
The Şengal massacre took place within the first days of ISIS’s1 capture of the town in 2014. More than 2,000 Ezîdî men were killed and thousands of abducted women and girls were sexually enslaved and sold through networks in complicit local states. ISIS’s terrorization of the predominantly Ezîdî city caused some 400,000 Ezîdîs to flee, […]