Women's Defense Units
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Women's Defense Units |
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| Lineup | 2012 |
| Country | Syria |
| Strength | 10,000 - ~ 26,000 (1/3 of YPG) |
| Insinuation | People's Defense Units (YPG) |
| Location | Northern Syria |
| motto | Jin Jiyan Azadî |
| Colours | green, red, yellow |
| equipment | AK-47 , Dragunov sniper rifle , RPG -7, hand grenade , DShK |
| Butcher | civil war in Syria |
| Web presence | ypjrojava.com |
| commander | |
| speaker | Nesrin Abdullah |
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The Women's Defense Units ( Kurdish Yekîneyên Parastina Jin , abbreviation YPJ ) are the women's fighting associations of the People's Defense Units (YPG), an armed militia in Syria.
The proportion of women in the approximately 65,000 fighters in the People's Defense Units is given as around a third. According to other information, around 40 percent of YPG members are women. That would be around 22,000–26,000 female fighters. Other estimates in 2017 were around 5,000 women. Most of the fighters are Kurdish, but the YPJ is also open to other ethnic groups and nationalities. In the IS-liberated areas, many Arab women decided to join the YPJ.
The YPJ gained international fame during the Battle of Kobane . Several non-Kurdish YPJ fighters such as Anna Campbell from Great Britain or Hanna Bohman from Canada also made the YPJ known internationally.
The fighters of the women's defense units receive four weeks of military training, during which they learn, among other things, how to use heavy machine guns, RPGs and the Soviet - Russian AK-47 ("Kalashnikov") assault rifle . In doing so, emphasis is placed on training in women's and human rights. The woman should be able to decide for herself what she wants to do.
The y pj handed on 26 July 2018 Widow of IS snipers with their four children and is suspected of a man, the IS to have substantive support to the FBI . HRW's Nadim Houry said that this could set a precedent for the other international IS fighters in custody of the PYD to have other ex-IS fighters brought back to their home countries and brought to justice.
Movies
Films have also been produced through the YPJ.
- Fear Us Women
- Nujîn
- Her War
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kurdish Women Turning Kobani into a Living 'Hell' for Islamic State. Telesurtv.net, October 14, 2014, accessed October 21, 2014 .
- ↑ Female Kurdish fighters announce new training academies for Arab women to take on Isis in Syria , The Independent on January 4, 2017.
- ↑ Will the Islamic State last through 2015? (No longer available online.) Today's Zaman , archived from the original on January 5, 2015 ; accessed on January 4, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Rashid, Bedir Mulla (2018) [1st pub. 2017]. Military and Security Structures of the Autonomous Administration in Syria. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
- ↑ a b So many women have volunteered to fight Isis they need to build new academies for female fighters . In: The Independent . ( Online [accessed September 11, 2018]).
- ↑ YPJ: Kurdish Women's Protection Units | The Kurdish Project . In: The Kurdish Project . ( Online [accessed July 21, 2018]).
- ↑ Call to return Syria fighter's body . In: BBC News . May 17, 2018 ( online [accessed July 21, 2018]).
- ^ The ex-model fighting IS. Retrieved July 21, 2018 (UK English).
- ↑ a b Kurdistan24: Syrian Kurds hand two US citizens over to FBI . In: Kurdistan24 . ( Online [accessed July 26, 2018]).
- ^ Fear Us Women - Official Film Site. Retrieved July 21, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ cinema querfeld: cinema-querfeld ::. Retrieved July 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Her War: Women Vs. ISIS. Accessed July 21, 2018 (English).
