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The Ezidkhan Command for Liberating Sinjar (Kurdish: Fermandariya Êzîdxana Ji Bo Rizgariya Şengalê), known as the Sinjar Alliance (Kurdish: Fermandariya Hevbeş a Şengalê, i.e. Sinjar Joint Command), is a joint command of two–initially three–Yazidi militias, the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ), and the Êzîdxan Women's Units (YJÊ). Both of the remaining two militias are supported by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
The alliance was originally created in October 2015 to protect the Yezidi community from ISIL attacks, after the August 2014 Sinjar massacre, and included the Êzîdxan Protection Force (HPŞ), which in fact provided the largest contingent of fighters (claiming at the time of the operation 5,000 fighters, including about 400 women). However, the HPŞ left the alliance in early 2017 due to ideological differences with the PKK-backed YBŞ and YJÊ. The Alliance aims to establish democratic confederalism in a Yazidi autonomous region in Sinjar.
The YBŞ is a militia that is made up of only Yazidi people, both men and women, with roots dating back to 2007. The YPG, a PKK affiliated militia known for its women fighters the YPJ, played a large role in the training of YBŞ forces. In the summer of 2015, the number of soldiers in the YBŞ totaled around 2,000 Yazidi men and women. This number continues to rise due to training by YPG and other support. The YBŞ assisted the YPG in all actions in Sinjar. In YBŞ' early existence it assisted in maintaining supply roads for HPS and YPG as a corridor was created for Yazidi safe passage out of Sinjar.
Sheikh Khairy Kedr was the first commander of the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ ). He died fighting against ISIS during Sinjar massacre in 2014. He was an inspiration to the resistance, as he came from the Yazidi villages that were bombed in 2007 and spent much of his life resisting the IS. One soldier who fought alongside Sheikh Khairy Khedr stated, "all the men cried for Sheikh Khairy. They said, 'If we lose Sheikh Khairy, we will become 1,000 Sheikh Khairy's. We will resist'. Still, they cried'".
Zaki Shingali led the YBŞ after Sheikh Khairy Kedr. Shingali died in 2018, just minutes after attending a vigil for those Yazidi's that lost their lives in the ISIS assault on Sinjar. His vehicle was hit by a Turkish airstrike. Ankara commented on his death, saying that it was a success and that one of the most wanted PKK militants had been killed. He was specifically targeted for his PKK and Kurdish roots by the Turkish government and had been identified as a senior PKK figure.
The YJÊ (Êzîdxan Women's Units, "Yekinêyen Jinên Êzidxan") is a resistance unit composed of Yazidi women, many of whom are survivors of ISIS enslavement. Yazidi women and girls faced months, sometimes years of abuse from their ISIS captures. As a result, many of these women are at the forefront of the battle between ISIS and the Yazidis, "There is no one like them!" Joined by their female soldiers, the YPG, the YJÊ plays a crucial role in defending the Yazidi people from IS attacks.
The YPG provides three months of ideological training to new recruits. Much of this ideology comes from the PKK and Abdullah Ocalan. This mainly consists of making them to "know who they are, what they are doing, what it is to be equal. It's easy to teach them to shoot, but psychologically".... YPG trains many survivors of ISIS captivity, stating: "Isis took those women and children because they wanted to destroy their honour. We help train the Yazidi women to defend themselves and then they can control their own future".
The founding goals of YJÊ were to defend Yazidi women's rights and Yazidi tradition as well as to protect Mount Sinjar. As time has passed, YJÊ ideology has taken on a much more global scope by using PKK rhetoric known as Jineology. Currently, YJÊ ideology maintains an aggressive stance; in 2017, YJÊ issued a statement: "We repeat over and over again that we are continuing our struggle and resistance anywhere for kidnapped Yazidi women and all oppressed women, we will hold the struggle flag high and continue our battle against all kinds of oppression and persecution wherever it existed".
Sinjar Alliance
The Ezidkhan Command for Liberating Sinjar (Kurdish: Fermandariya Êzîdxana Ji Bo Rizgariya Şengalê), known as the Sinjar Alliance (Kurdish: Fermandariya Hevbeş a Şengalê, i.e. Sinjar Joint Command), is a joint command of two–initially three–Yazidi militias, the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ), and the Êzîdxan Women's Units (YJÊ). Both of the remaining two militias are supported by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
The alliance was originally created in October 2015 to protect the Yezidi community from ISIL attacks, after the August 2014 Sinjar massacre, and included the Êzîdxan Protection Force (HPŞ), which in fact provided the largest contingent of fighters (claiming at the time of the operation 5,000 fighters, including about 400 women). However, the HPŞ left the alliance in early 2017 due to ideological differences with the PKK-backed YBŞ and YJÊ. The Alliance aims to establish democratic confederalism in a Yazidi autonomous region in Sinjar.
The YBŞ is a militia that is made up of only Yazidi people, both men and women, with roots dating back to 2007. The YPG, a PKK affiliated militia known for its women fighters the YPJ, played a large role in the training of YBŞ forces. In the summer of 2015, the number of soldiers in the YBŞ totaled around 2,000 Yazidi men and women. This number continues to rise due to training by YPG and other support. The YBŞ assisted the YPG in all actions in Sinjar. In YBŞ' early existence it assisted in maintaining supply roads for HPS and YPG as a corridor was created for Yazidi safe passage out of Sinjar.
Sheikh Khairy Kedr was the first commander of the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ ). He died fighting against ISIS during Sinjar massacre in 2014. He was an inspiration to the resistance, as he came from the Yazidi villages that were bombed in 2007 and spent much of his life resisting the IS. One soldier who fought alongside Sheikh Khairy Khedr stated, "all the men cried for Sheikh Khairy. They said, 'If we lose Sheikh Khairy, we will become 1,000 Sheikh Khairy's. We will resist'. Still, they cried'".
Zaki Shingali led the YBŞ after Sheikh Khairy Kedr. Shingali died in 2018, just minutes after attending a vigil for those Yazidi's that lost their lives in the ISIS assault on Sinjar. His vehicle was hit by a Turkish airstrike. Ankara commented on his death, saying that it was a success and that one of the most wanted PKK militants had been killed. He was specifically targeted for his PKK and Kurdish roots by the Turkish government and had been identified as a senior PKK figure.
The YJÊ (Êzîdxan Women's Units, "Yekinêyen Jinên Êzidxan") is a resistance unit composed of Yazidi women, many of whom are survivors of ISIS enslavement. Yazidi women and girls faced months, sometimes years of abuse from their ISIS captures. As a result, many of these women are at the forefront of the battle between ISIS and the Yazidis, "There is no one like them!" Joined by their female soldiers, the YPG, the YJÊ plays a crucial role in defending the Yazidi people from IS attacks.
The YPG provides three months of ideological training to new recruits. Much of this ideology comes from the PKK and Abdullah Ocalan. This mainly consists of making them to "know who they are, what they are doing, what it is to be equal. It's easy to teach them to shoot, but psychologically".... YPG trains many survivors of ISIS captivity, stating: "Isis took those women and children because they wanted to destroy their honour. We help train the Yazidi women to defend themselves and then they can control their own future".
The founding goals of YJÊ were to defend Yazidi women's rights and Yazidi tradition as well as to protect Mount Sinjar. As time has passed, YJÊ ideology has taken on a much more global scope by using PKK rhetoric known as Jineology. Currently, YJÊ ideology maintains an aggressive stance; in 2017, YJÊ issued a statement: "We repeat over and over again that we are continuing our struggle and resistance anywhere for kidnapped Yazidi women and all oppressed women, we will hold the struggle flag high and continue our battle against all kinds of oppression and persecution wherever it existed".
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