YPG/YPJ fighters pay tribute to internationalist Anna Campbell

Fighters of the YPJ and YPG commemorated internationalist Anna Campbell on the banks of the Euphrates River.

The internationalist YPJ fighter Anna Campbell (Nom de Guerre: Hêlîn Qereçox) was commemorated with a military ceremony in Rojava. Anna Campbell was martyred in the Turkish invasion of Afrin on March 15, 2018.

At the ceremony, Dilbirin Kobanê, YPJ commander of the Euphrates region, delivered a speech in which she paid tribute to the struggle of Anna Campbell and all other martyrs of the Rojava Revolution. "Hêlîn Qereçox came from another country and joined the ranks of the liberation struggle because the quest for freedom knows no borders. She firmly believed in the freedom of all humanity and fought for this goal."

Following the ceremony, the fighters left lit candles floating in the Euphrates River.

International YPJ fighter Anna Campbell (Hêlîn Qereçox), a British citizen, fell a martyr in a Turkish airstrike during the occupation war on Afrin. 

Anna has become a symbol of women's revolution and internationalism across the world, as Kongra Star and her comrades at YPG International remembered.

Anna Campbell was born in 1991 in Lewes, East Sussex. She was a feminist, anti-fascist and prison abolition activist.

She joined the YPJ and fought against the ISIS in Deir Ez-Zor first and then in Afrin, to counter the brutal attacks launched by the Turkish army and its mercenaries in January 2018. 

She fell a martyr in Afrin on 15 March 2018.