US EditionTo Defend Rojava Is to Defend Humanity
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There is only one Rojava. A territory liberated, held, organized, defended. No idea, not a symbol, not a parenthesis. A concrete collective construction, born of war and maintained by the struggle. For ten years, the Turkish State has waged a war of destruction against the Kurdish liberation movement. Invasions, bombings, prisons, occupations, displacements of population. The objective is simple, to eliminate any force capable of organizing itse…
Islamic fundamentalists and Turkey are attacking Rojava, thousands of ISIS prisoners have been liberated and Kobanê is surrounded. But what is Rojava at all, what does the region have to do with Germany, and why do we have to "defend Rojava?" – a comment by Thomas Mercy. For several weeks, Rojava – the autonomy area in northeastern Syria – has been attacked by the Syrian army, supported by Turkey. Initially, only two quarters of the city of Alep…
To defend Rojava is to defend humanity
The Syrian regime and Turkey are seeking the complete surrender of Kurdish autonomous areas, reports Sarah Glynn. Like so many others, I first heard of the Kurds in Syria in 2014, when the news was full of images of women fighters defending their city and the world against ISIS. Alongside these images, the occasional reporter […]
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