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One thing that a lot of people don't know about the YPG is that much of the leadership of...

Heval • 2021
One thing that a lot of people don't know about the YPG is that much of the leadership of the YPG is women

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One thing that a lot of people don't know about the YPG
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is that much of the leadership of the YPG is women.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
50
Timestamp in Movie
00:36:45
Uploaded
May 08, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
CuriosityStream,Mafficking Pictures,LINK Entertainment,Jupiter Entertainment,Sky Studios

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Explore interviews with Michael, his supporters and his detractors with the actor's own helmet-cam video of deadly battles with and interrogations of ISIS fighters.
And they called it a feminist revolution, it really was. - Heval 00:05
And they called it a feminist revolution, it really was.
Up to that point, I always thought that women - Heval 00:06
Up to that point, I always thought that women
And it's like, if someone's gonna take a risk - Heval 00:09
And it's like, if someone's gonna take a risk
And then, you meet the YPJ - Heval 00:06
And then, you meet the YPJ
Because all of a sudden those thoughts just leave you - Heval 00:07
Because all of a sudden those thoughts just leave you
(machine gun blasts) - Heval 00:09
(machine gun blasts)
And I was hiding in the dirt because I was terrified. - Heval 00:05
And I was hiding in the dirt because I was terrified.
And I can remember turning to my left - Heval 00:18
And I can remember turning to my left
And I can remember being shamed by it, - Heval 00:11
And I can remember being shamed by it,
Because the Islamic State believed that if they were - Heval 00:09
Because the Islamic State believed that if they were
They wouldn't get the 72 virgins that was due them. - Heval 00:05
They wouldn't get the 72 virgins that was due them.
(woman speaks in a foreign language) - Heval 00:05
(woman speaks in a foreign language)
I think one of the reasons why I had a bond - Heval 00:08
I think one of the reasons why I had a bond
If someone has self-respect and shows you respect, - Heval 00:06
If someone has self-respect and shows you respect,
So I was committed to this fight - Heval 00:05
So I was committed to this fight
I mean, I never wanted to go home until we'd taken Raqqa - Heval 00:06
I mean, I never wanted to go home until we'd taken...
That's like you invade in England and you take London. - Heval 00:04
That's like you invade in England and you take London.
But by the end of 2015, we hadn't taken Raqqa. - Heval 00:04
But by the end of 2015, we hadn't taken Raqqa.
We'd been in a sort of hold - Heval 00:06
We'd been in a sort of hold
So I had already completed my six months tour. - Heval 00:04
So I had already completed my six months tour.