Walking down a dusty, dirt road in Rojava,

near the border.

Sand in my mouth, tears on my cheek.

NATO jets flying under Turkish colours,

bombing, massacring, the soldiers of the Syrian Defence Forces

and their internationalist Kurdish YPG allies —

a modern International Brigade.

SDF forces are now, this minute, pulling soldiers (Kurdish, Arab, American, British, Serbian, German volunteers)

out from their duties in the prison camps.

We need these men and women; the Turks have the NATO-supplied war planes and heavy armour.

These bastard Turks have a history of genocide. 1915–1922 millions of Greek and Armenian Christians slaughtered to produce a Muslim Turkey.

Changing its ancient Byzantine capital from Constantinople to Istanbul. They have a history.

This not a war of equals. We are forced into freeing camps full of ISIS/DAESH murderers,

letting them loose, 20.000 of them. The YPJ (Womens’ Kurdish defence units, ܚܕܝ̈ܘܬܐ ܕܣܘܬܪܐ ܕܢܫ̈ܐ)

leave their duties in these camps with tears in their eyes.

They know what these bastards are capable of, what they did, to their sisters,

to the Ezedi sex slaves sold at the markets in Mosul during the Caliphate. ‘

Why are the Americans allowing these murderers to attack us, again?” I do not know. Why?

 

By Denilaur — Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44519524