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Elegy for Anna

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Anna Campbell was her name and Kurdistan

Was the country in which she died on March 15 2018, the Ides of March

She was fighting as part of the all-female 

Kurdish Women's Protection Units, the YPG.

She was 26 when she died a long way from Lewes in East Sussex where she was raised.

She was killed by a Turkish airstrike - the Islamist Turks NATO-empowered enemies of the Kurds

Anna had dyed her blonde air black so as to not stand out from her comrades in the YPG

A form of camouflage, maybe, to sustain her

She was the eighth Briton to be killed fighting for the YPG: the first woman volunteer

She wanted to help the weak and dispossessed against the mighty and the cruel

She knew fear but she still fought: she was brave

Anna Campbell, centre, with YPJ fighters stationed in northern Syria

Anna knew she was in mortal danger from ISIS and the Turks armed by NATO

Knowing how dangerous it was, she volunteered to defend Afrin, a Kurdish city, against the Islamo-Fascist Turks

Her unit opened corridors for civilians to leave and delayed the invaders long enough to save thousands of lives

Anna had more humanity in her little finger than the whole international community

She is an inspiration and a hero: her memory will live as long in the memory

As those who fought Fascism in Spain

As those who gave their lives so that we can be free.

 

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keith jeffries

Wed 13th Feb 2019 16:51

Bless her heart always. Thank you for this. Keith

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