Bethnahrain Women's Protection Forces

Bethnahrain Women's Protection Forces
ܚܝܠܘ̈ܬܐ ܕܣܘܬܪܐ ܕܢܫ̈ܐ ܕܒܝܬ ܢܗܪܝܢ
Participant in Syrian Civil War

Emblem of HSNB

Emblem of HSNB
Active September 2015[1] – present
Ideology Dawronoye
Headquarters Al-Qahtaniyah, al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria[2]
Area of operations Al-Hasakah Governorate
Khabur River valley
Raqqa Governorate
Part of

Syriac Union Party [3]

Syriac Military Council[4]

Syrian Democratic Forces[4]
Allies

Sutoro
Nineveh Plain Forces
YPG
YPJ

Martyr Amara Arab Women's Battalion[5]
Opponents Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Battles and wars

Syrian Civil War

The Bethnahrain Women's Protection Forces (Syriac: ܚܝܠܘ̈ܬܐ ܕܣܘܬܪܐ ܕܢܫ̈ܐ ܕܒܝܬ ܢܗܪܝܢ‎, translit. Ḥaylawotho d'Sutoro d'Neshe d'Beth Nahrin; HSNB) is an all-female Assyrian military and police organization based in al-Qahtaniyah, al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria.

HSNB was set up as a female brigade of the Syriac Military Council and assumes guard roles in areas where Assyrians reside.[2]

HSNB includes military & police forces. The police section of HSNB has offices in Gozarto, likewise for the military section, academies & military points.

History

The Bethnahrain Women's Protection Forces was formed on the first day of September 2015. During the announcement of the formation, the group declared that it will fight under the guidance of the Syriac Union Party, ally with the Assyrian group Sutoro, and "improve the values of Syriac people, women’s rights and to act with solidarity with other nations’ women and to struggle against the reactionarism."[1]

On 6 November 2016, the HSNB announced that it would partake in the Raqqa offensive alongside the MFS and Kurdish and Arab forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces[7][6]

Ideology

The Bethnahrain Women's Protection Forces follow the Dawronoye ideology, a secular left-wing Assyrian nationalist movement tracing back to the 1980s in Midyat, Turkey. [8]

Shamiran Shimon, the head of the Syriac Women's Union (SWU) in Syria, announced that the HSNB was to be formed as Assyrian women in Syria had been obscured and persecuted by the masculine communities in the region.

The HSNB was formed to guarantee equal rights for Assyrian women in Syria and counters the constraints religious figures in the region have placed on women and the ideals of feminism.[9]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces Founded against ISIS". BIA News. 2 September 2015.
  2. 1 2 Delil Souleiman (13 December 2015). "Christian female fighters take on IS in Syria". Agence France-Presse.
  3. ↑ "Syriac-Assyrian Christians in Syria warn: "we will defend ourselves against a Turkish invasion” - Syriac International News Agency". 20 February 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 "Assyrian Female Fighters Joined Battlefronts Against ISIS in Northeastern Syria".
  5. ↑ "SDF about forming first Arab all-female brigade - ANHA". en.hawarnews.com.
  6. 1 2 "SDF marching on Raqqa is mix of ethnicities, religions, genders". Rudaw Media Network. 7 November 2016.
  7. ↑ "Raqqa Liberation Campaign "Wrath of the Euphrates"". Bethnahrain Women's Protection Forces. 6 November 2016.
  8. ↑ "The Revolutionaries of Bethnahrin". 25 May 2015.
  9. ↑ "Syriac women will join Kurdish female fighters to combat ISIS terrorists: Leader - ARA News". 31 May 2015.
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