#mahabad

[deafeningqueensoul]

SOS 🆘

Please spread the word and help the people Mahabad, THEY NEED YOUR HELP!!!!

Be their voice!!!

[rupelamesopotamia]

22 JANUARY 1946 MAHABAD REPUBLIC

[theyeetedsoul]

SOS

Mahabad city is under heavy military attack from the Islamic Republic regime. The people are defenseless and are doing their best to protect themselves and their loved ones. They’re literally being fired at by military machinery.

The sound of gunfire does not stop.

Spread the word!

[tolhildan72]

Daketine meydanê gerilayê dilawêr. Jibona Kurdistanê wek baz û piling û şêr.🇹🇯🇧🇴

[womanlifefreedom]

More footage from Kurdistan - a large crowd of men, women and children gathered at night in what appears to be a public square. They are shouting “Death to the dictator!” as vehicles honk and use noisemakers. Video has been blurred to protect protestors’ identity. Source identifies the area as Mahabad.

Source: Twitter/S E P I D

[the-celestial-bitch]

Disclaimer: im not kurdish and ive never lived in kurdish-majority cities, but i have friends who are kurds and i tried to fact-check this through them and various essays.

please be the voice of kurdish people in these trying times! this genocide is ofc not just limited to kurds, but also baluchi and azari people as well. maybe on another day ill make a new infographic for that.

reposts are fine, do anything to spread the word <3

[pineapplecrispy]

[post-leffert]

Mahabad, Iran (Oct 22nd 2022)

[greencarnation]

Iranian forces have cut the electricity in Mahabad. Since cutting the electricity they have not stopped shooting. The news is silence. We need to be their voices

[isitandwonder]

Things seem really, really bad in Mahabad tonight. Allegedly, the army has been deployed to smash the uprising.

Morning of the 20th November on Mahabad. Some kind of IR army corps roaming the streets. Shooting continues

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

Iranian police and security forces have responded with great violence, according to DPA agency witnesses, to a protest called on Saturday night in the Kurdish city of Mahabad, in the northwest of the country, where riot police have made an appearance in tanks and fired indiscriminately against demonstrators. The city has also been temporarily without electricity as residents evacuated the wounded. It is not yet known if there are any fatalities. Tasnim news agency gave a different account of the situation, claiming "armed terrorists" had set fire to private homes and public facilities on Saturday night, sparking panic in the entire city. Several leaders of the suspected terrorist groups were arrested, Tasnim said, citing local security authorities. This Sunday, Iran's Judiciary has summoned five actresses and other personalities from the country's public life to seek explanations for their support of protests against the death in custody of young Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Amini after she was arrested for allegedly wearing the veil incorrectly. The actresses have been identified by the official Iranian Judiciary agency, Mizan, as Elnaz Shakerdost, Mitra Hayar, Baran Kaushari, Sima Tirranzah and Hengeme Ghaziani, all of whom have been cited for publishing unspecified "provocative content." As of this Sunday, Golmohammadi and Kosari's pages were no longer available on Instagram. Likewise, the Tehran Prosecutor's Office has also summoned Persepolis FC soccer club coach Yahya Golmohammadi and former reformist MPs Mahmud Sadeghi and Parvaneh Salahshouri to testify, according to Mizan's information. At least 342 people have been killed, including at least 43 minors and 26 women, during the authorities' crackdown on protesters over Amini's death, according to the latest toll this week by the NGO Iran Human Rights.

[illlllillllli]

I understand most of yall hate tiktok but i need you to understand that with twitter on the verge of death, people literally finding themselves unable to download archives of their content, that tiktok is serving a vital purpose right now

If you search names like Shervin Hajipour, Zhina Amini (Mahsa Amini), Hossein Ronaghi, Khodanour Lajaei, or Nika Shakarami on google, you might only find results from September or October. As I'm typing this, November 2022 is almost over.

This particular wave of the ongoing genocide has been ramping up for MONTHS now and you have to dig for updates.

Look back a little further and you'll learn about Bloody November, in 2019. 1500+ peaceful people. Look back further! This battle against genocide isn't new, isn't small, isn't irrelevant. But mainstream news would have you believe it. Meanwhile on TT and IG you can search these tags and find updates as recent as a few hours.

Hashtags on tiktok are allowing people to communicate directly. The internet and ELECTRICITY are cut off in Mahabad and people are being attacked in cities across Iran

yet humans across continents have formed a delicate chain of communication with voice recorders, videos, instagram, twitter, tiktok... this echo is how we hear their cries for help. their literal cries for help. The literal voice recordings of Iranian children and adults in terror being shot at being executed having their homes burned are still making it out of a cities under attack across continents and oceans.

Tiktok is full of vile evil shit just like the rest of the internet. Just like Twitter. but we need these forms of communication.

I am telling you. The content of these videos, which you can find yourself on tiktok or other social media with hashtags like #MahsaAmini, #StopExecutionsInIran, #WomenLifeFreedom, #Mahabad and more, is not being archived for history lessons for your grandkids to watch on a projector. It isn't gonna be broadcast next week on tv news. It is actively being scrubbed, minute by minute, by people who do not want you to believe or care this is happening. People who know that in the age of information excess, out of sight is out of mind. People who know they can enrage more people with Taylor Swift concert tickets.

I download as many videos, as much footage as I can come across. Then I'm moving them to my computer. Then a flash drive. I'm trying to get a library card to access a printer so I can have physical copies of articles. English, Arabic, anything that is direct footage, any summaries of events, I am including the date and location. This is something you can do too. This is something tiktok makes easy to do.

Nobody is telling me to do it but I believe it's going to matter.

I'm 27. I understand the education system. In my time since graduation I've come to understand how much we WEREN'T taught, how much we were taught that was a straight up lie.

Filtering through data is a good skill to have whether you're reading a textbook or using social media.

I'm not telling you to like tiktok or even try it, I'm just saying that if you care about this information then you can find it there, and you can connect with other people who also care.

(Also, there are TON of Indigenous creators using tiktok to share their history, language, art, and updates about issues like threats to the Indian Child Welfare Act. You can't control the algorithm but you kinda can. There are a lot of great people on these apps and I don't want to lose them and I don't want them to lose their space either.)

Archiving, connecting, listening, and learning may not be profitable or encouraged but it is important and accessible work and if you are often housebound or even bedbound, it can be a fulfilling way to reach out to others.

These people in Iran are in danger. They are children, students, people who care about the planet, about equality, about fairness. Thats WHY theyre being executed. These are the people who believe in the future we want and how can we build that future if they're gone? More importantly than their value to future generations, these people deserve to live their own lives, to breathe, to not be afraid.

Many of the recordings I find on tiktok are the first and last bits of connection we have with the people who make them, because they have since been executed or gone missing.

I have seen the photos Kian Pirfalak, a little boy shot to death, his body under ice so it wouldn't be stolen away. People across the ocean knew he died before his father- also injured, still in critical condition from when we last heard- knew he lost a son. His mother attacked while mourning at his funeral.

Ive seen the photos of the devices they use to hang people. People my age. Do you know what I mean? When I watch a video I know it could be removed in an hour. Accounts get deleted and how do you ever find that Person again? that individual, specific person? To help them?

There are people on the internet trying to convince you that 15,000+ humans are not currently at risk of execution. Theyve had a lot of success desensitizing everyone to mass death what with the pandemic and all. Please don't let them. If you cant conceptualize these numbers, just think about one person. Think about the ones who died and why. Think about the ones who are alive and what they need.

I will be posting some of the videos I find on here as well. This is happening in real time and it's being erased in real time. All of this could be gone tomorrow. I don't know what else to say.

[littlethingsmakebigchanges]

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[melikemordemjaponi]

✽Daughter of Qazi Muhammed dies in exile

Süheyla Qazi, daughter of Qazi Muhammed, the founder of the Kurdish Republic of Mahabad, died in exile, longing for Kurdistan.

Süheyla Qazi, the daughter of Qazi Muhammed, the founder of the Kurdish Republic of Mahabad, passed away on Friday (24 February)in Bonn. Süheyla Qazi, who was born in Mahabad on 11 July 1941, died in exile where she had been living for more than 40 years.

Via ANF News English (+photo)

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ANF | Daughter of Qazi Muhammed dies in exile

✽Süheyla Qazi hayatını kaybetti

Mahabad Kürt Cumhuriyeti’nin kurucusu Qazi Muhammed’in kızı Süheyla Qazi, yaşamını yitirdi.

Mahabad Kürt Cumhuriyeti’nin kurucusu Qazi Muhammed’in kızı Süheyla Qazi’nin, Almanya’nın Bonn kentinde dün (24 Şubat)hayatını kaybettiği duyuruldu. 11 Temmuz 1941’de Mahabad’da dünyaya gelen Süheyla Qazi, 40 yılı aşkın süredir yaşadığı sürgünde yaşamını yitirdi.

ANF News Türkçe aracılığıyla (+foto)

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ANF | Süheyla Qazi hayatını kaybetti

✽スュヘイラ・カズィさん死去。

クルド人��国マハバード共和国の建国者であるカジ・ムハンマド氏の子女、スヘイラ・カズィさんが亡くなった。

クルド人の国マハバード共和国の建国者カズィ・ムハンマド氏の子女であるスヘイラ・カズィさんが、2月24日にドイツのボンで死去したことが発表された。1941年7月11日にマハバードで生まれたスヘイラ・カジさんは、40年以上住んでいた亡命先で亡くなった。

ANFニュース英語/トルコ語より記事一部抜粋(+画像とも)

[womanlifefreedom]

During this DW interview, some clips are played (cw: no graphic violence but a disturbing clip of a woman (?) screaming off camera) as Mr. Amiry-Moghaddam confirms a military presence in Mahabad and describes the situation. It’s admittedly rather thin on details but this can be shared to those unfamiliar with the situation.

As well, some footage from Twitter. My sincere apologies for the lack of Kurdish translations, I’ve posted whatever I can:

Masih Alinejad - Video shot from a window above a street where multiple military vehicles, many of them with armed soldiers, are moving in a line. Women’s voices in the background sound very worried.

Sheler Haghanifar - A video of men literally wearing pots on their heads. Possibly starts out saying Bisharaf? (”shame”) and ends with Mashallah! (literally, “god’s will” but it’s like a rallying cry here, like “keep going!”)

Karim Sadjadpour - Shot of apartment buildings where residents of Tehran chant, “Mahabad, Kurdistan, eye and light of Iran.” An expression of solidarity.