Family of Kurdish female fighter seen naked, mutilated in graphic viral video speaks out
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The deceased body of a Kurdish female fighter was defiled in an Afrin battle. Who was she and what was she fighting for?
KOBANI, Syria โ As the battle for the northwestern Syrian city of Afrin raged earlier this year, amid Turkeyโs eventually successful โOperation Olive Branchโ to seize control from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), images of the bloodbath flooded social media.
But there was one especially shocking video, captured via cellphone, that ignited international outcry: a fighter with the all-female Kurdish unit known as the YPJ lay dead and half-naked in the dirt, her body mutilated with deep cuts lacerating her exposed breasts. Turkey-backed Syrian rebel fighters in military fatigues can be seen swarming the corpse, groping the pockets of her jeans.
Barin Kobani and her brother Ahmed, who saw the graphic video online before learning that it was his younger sister.
โSheโs beautiful, man,โ declares one fighter as one purports to take a selfie with the defiled body. In Arabic, others declare โGod is Great,โ while some call the downed soldier a โfemale pig.โ One even digs his dirty boot into her chest, and another puts the muzzle of his rifle at her head.
โI was checking Facebook and I came across the video and was in shock