Kurdish communities around the country have responded to the genocidal war against Rojava with multiple protests in several cities. Peter Boyle reports.

Many Kurds in Australia have family members who have been disappeared or displaced in the fighting. The protests have united Kurds from all the parts of Kurdistan, which was divided by Western colonial powers between Turkey, Iran, Iran and Syria after World War I.

“We call on the government and all Australians to show solidarity with Rojava and condemn these attacks”, Baran Sogut, a spokesperson for the Federation of Democratic Kurdish Society (Australia), said at a protest held outside the Parliament House in Canberra on January 17.