The
amazons heroines of the Peshmerga who do not fear to die.
Kurds
dream of a state and for the first time, fighters from all the big Kurdish
factions in the Middle East, KDP, PUK, PKK and YPG, are fighting alongside for
one goal only: a secular and democratic statehood, it's a hugely powerful
moment. And there is one force within the Kurdisch army: the female guerilla
combatants who do no fear death they are mostly feared by the IS/daesh.
Most of these women look quite young,
in their early 20s. The fearless women have been fighting and risking their
lives to protect their villages and towns from the terrorists. They mostly have
long black hair and their nails red laquered.
Female
Kurdish Peshmerga units are taking part in the fighting at Hazir, Naveran and
Bashiqa fronts and other fronts untill this day.
Female
officers have said that their aim is to fight against the “common enemy” until
the final victory, so that women, and the whole population of the region, can
live freely. Earlier, in an interview with Sputnik, 32-year-old female commander
Berivan Salihber said, “We have been fighting against Daesh for over two years
already. There are hundreds of women in our ranks. However there are those who
died heroically in fierce battles with the jihadists.” “When
they see Peshmerga female fighters, Daesh militants start to panic and try not
to engage in an open fight with us, as death from the hand of a woman is
considered by them as humiliating and disgraceful.” Salihber said. Note from the
editor: Note editor: in the belief of the daesh if they are killed by a female
combatant they will not go to paradise and receive their 700 virgins.
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The female Peshmerga units also want
to liberate the Yazidi women whom Daesh holds captive in Mosul and thus they
won't leave (note from editor which will be published in an another quarter) the
battlefield until Daesh is finally eliminated (note editor : to be followed up
by another article from Cryfreedom).
But just
who are all these factions, and why do they matter?:
Here is an overview to all Kurdish factions, political or guerilla:
• KDP:
Kurdistan Democratic Party, currently the dominant faction in Iraqi Kurdistan,
it is a fiefdom of the Barzani clan, and led by the region’s president, Masoud
Barzani. He’s the son of a renowned resistance fighter who led the struggle
against Baghdad. The KDP is pro-capitalism, pro-West, and close to Turkey.
• PUK:
the second faction in Iraqi Kurdistan, and a fiefdom of the rival Talabani clan,
led by Jalal Talabani, who was figurehead Iraqi president until this year. It is
close to Iran, though not unfriendly to the West.
• PKK:
the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Marxist group that fought a bloody war with
Turkey for more autonomy in the Kurdish south-east from 1984 to a ceasefire last
year. Its leader, Abdullah Ocalan, known throughout the Kurdish world as Apo, or
Uncle, has been in a Turkish prison since 1999.
•
PYD/YPG: the Democratic Union Party and its armed wing, the People’s Protection
Units, have used the Syrian civil war to carve out a mini-state in three parts
of northern Syria, of which Kobane is the one in the middle. It is regarded as
so close to the PKK as to be almost a subordinate entity.
• KNC:
the Kurdish National Council is a coalition of Syrian Kurdish parties not
aligned with the PYD/YPG. It is close to Mr Barzani’s KDP – to the extent that
some see it as part of his battle with Mr Ocalan for leadership of the Kurdish
world.
What has
happened is that Turkey has decided to allow Iraqi Kurdistan’s army, the
Peshmerga, to join the YPG, the PKK’s Syrian affiliate, in defending Kobane.
The
Kurds of south-east Turkey cheering the Peshmerga convoy as it passes are of
course hoping they will save their fellow Kurds in Kobane. But they are also
cheering the new-found unity of the Kurdish cause. For once, the
faction-fighting of their leaders has been set aside in a common purpose, and
the Kurd in the street feels anything is now possible.
Kurdistan is an extensive plateau and mountainous area in the
Middle East,
inhabited mainly by Kurds. It covers large parts of eastern Turkey,
northern Iraq, northwestern
Iran and smaller parts of
northern Syria and
Armenia.
The real
problem now, and has always been, is not their political i.e. guerilla power but
the ambivalence of the West. Latest excample is when trump on december 19th
2018. declared victory over the IS and would withdrew us boots on the
ground. And with him of course the rest of the West joined him in this
declararation. a) the IS is far from defeated and b) the Kurds and with
them the female guerilla combatants are stronger than never before. But I think
Melania kicked his ass and he declared the withdrewal might take longer because
the IS was not defeated and he more than ever depended on the Peshmergas.
UPDATE
Marz 01th.: since about 3 weeks trump has been trumpetting victory over IS. Now
that might bring back memories over the days when bush did the same over Al
qaida. But both are not defeated and very alive and continuing their war crimes
(not that the US has ever been innocent of warcrimes). About the IS: they
have a small stronghold left in the north of Syria, Baghouz, and the Peshmerga
together with Western allies are fighting there but it are especially the
Peshmerga fighting the toughest. See, that again proves to me that the usa: talks
the talks but not the walks.
In the
meantime there have been sometimes huge debates about what to do with the
Western jihadish taken prison by the Peshmerga who repeatedly said that if the
E.U. does not repatriate them the Peshmerga would release them.
Now the E.U. decided not even repatriate the children. So I bet you that the IS
is far from defeated with 1.800 prisoners in Kurdisch camps and mothers and all
children no matter age.
In the meantime the IS is more and more planning attacks in the West.
UPDATE
Marz 11th.: in Baghouz the Peshermerga captured 400 IS'rs and 800 more
surrendered. And the usa is nowhere to be seen.
UPDATE Marz 23rd. : at Bagouz the Peshmerga and in Syria have defeated the IS.
And no, not the usa i.e. their allies including the dictator of Syria.
UPDATE April 1th. : although Russia has no boots on the ground they do have to
support dictator Assad against the opposing free Syrian army. Also they deployed
mercenaries under the command of Yevgeni Prigogin.
UPDATE
MAY 10th. : trump cannot stop repeating how the usa has defeated the IS but we
all know it were the pehmerga female combatants who drove them out of Syria and
the dictator of Syria, together with usa and Russian troops caused a lot of
collateral damage meaning the lives of tens of thousands civilians of which too
many women and children.
In the meantime the IS spread out their battlefield abroad with recently a
terror attack in Thailand. Way to go trump.
Gino d'Artali
journalist for
Cryfreedom.net
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