Thursday 16 April 2015

Viyan Peyman and Ivana Hoffman

Those fighting in Kurdistan against the ISIS monsters (like anyone anywhere confronting any other form of fascism) are not just fighting for their people, they are fighting for all those of us who believe in individual freedom. These anonymous heroes are dying for us, so it feels painful to know about their death in combat. Recently, while visiting the very interesting site of the Comite de Solidaridad con Rojava y el Pueblo Kurdo, I came across with the sad news of the fall in combat of Viya Peyman.

She was a Kurdish Freedom Fighter, poet and a singer. A PKK member that after years of fighting for the social an national liberation of the Kurdish people took part in the defence and liberation of Kobane, and finally died in another combat against IslamoFascists in another part of Rojava. This video that shows her among the ruins of Kobane interpreting a painful song about the city is just devastating. I guess those rappers and MetalCore tough idiots that love to look like bad and dangerous guys in stupid videos singing stupid shit should be green envy with this video. That's the real life, that's a real tough and brave human being, not by choice but by need...

Viyan Peyman was her "war name", meaning "Will and Commitment". You can read more about this great woman here.

"We stand and fight, especially here in the Middle East where women are treated as inferiors," Peyman told us. "We stand here as symbols of strength for all the women of the region."

Last month Ivana Hoffman, a German citizen enlisted in the MLKP (a Turkish internationalist communist force deeply committed to the Rojava Revolution) also lost her life in combat.

Honor and Glory comrades, rest assured your sacrifice has not been in vein

By the way, last week I watched The city that beat ISIS, a short new documentary, filmed just when Kobane was about to be liberated.

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