NEWS CENTER – It was 2018 when we met. I was new to the YPJ International Academy. We experienced education together, laughed together, cooked together, fought together, joked together, danced together and played sports together. We lived very close to each other, experienced each other 24 hours a day and experienced each other’s strength and weakness. To strengthen each other and finally free ourselves from this dirty system, we criticised each other a lot, argued and picked apart the contradictions in language and behaviour. It was a very intense time.
When the education was over and I was about to leave and go to another job, you messed with a friend who had just arrived. I saw that you were using the old behaviours from the system again. I used to have problems talking to you about it, but by then we had both met and knew how to deal with each other.
We walked a bit together and I asked you why you were using the old behaviours again, you got angry again and tried to explain yourself until I said laughing, but you have already overcome that and you also laughed and said yes right, I have already overcome that. That was a very heartfelt moment, for me the most beautiful moment I have experienced with you, because this moment shows how much we have worked on each other, how much we have developed so that we can finally admit our mistakes and also smile about them.
I went to another job and you went to a tabur to take part in the war. Only later did I find out that you had joined and I was very happy, but when I found out, I know today, you had already fallen.
Your time on the mountains was too short, your time in the revolution too short. But I know that with your energy, your curiosity, your thirst for freedom, you absorbed every moment like a sponge. You didn’t let a second simply pass you by, but used every second to go on, always further towards freedom.
Just as your struggle brought you from Germany, from the Hambach Forest to Kurdistan, first to the YPJ defence units in Rojava and then to the guerrilla resistance areas, you showed that our struggle, wherever we are fighting it, always has an international character. What is done in Rojava radiates to the movements worldwide, what is done in Germany also radiates to the movements here. Everything influences each other, is interrelated and cannot be separated by physical and mental borders. With your path, you have created more bridges with which others can overcome the obstacles that divide us.
Because as you quoted so beautifully, we cannot be free alone, we can only be as free as liberated people surround us, the more liberated they are and the more they are, the deeper, wider and greater our freedom can be.
Especially as a woman from anarchist movements in Germany, you have shown us a way, following in the footsteps of the many other internationalist Şehîds who have made the Kurdistan freedom movement what it is today with their strength and their struggle, you have also contributed your part as an internationalist revolutionary.
Şehîd namirin.
An internationalist comrade
NC//AMARA BARAN
