ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 3月14日 23時45分

photo by @yuri.kozyrev | words by @neilshea13 — Most of us are new. Only a few thought we would be soldiers. It’s not something most girls grow up wanting. But we change. The world offers a chance, or forces a choice. There is no other way to say it. Some of our sisters are Arabs and came here escaping violent husbands or families who wanted them caged. Others of us are Kurds, and we too fled beatings, adulterers, hypocrites. Of course, some here joined the women’s battalion simply to fight. Defend. Perhaps to kill. Because no woman can look to ISIS and see life. Or happiness. Death is no victory. The devout ones among us know that justice is not made with men’s hands. So we march and we train, like soldiers everywhere, for a day that may never come. At the firing range that afternoon we practiced with rifles as old as our fathers and dug through crates of ammunition made for an imaginary war. The brass chipped paint from our fingernails. Our hands shook. We were nervous, unused to the weight of the steel and the cold crescent moon of the trigger. Our first shots flew wide or spitted into the dust. But we learned. Felt recoil. Smelled powder. Hot cartridges bounced off our boot tops. And then, one by one, our rifles began breaking. There were misfires. Stocks fell off and charging handles jammed. Selector switches stuck fast. Soon, a pile of dead weapons lay at our feet. My commander said, How can we meet ISIS with this? Tell them we need better guns! You held up your hands and laughed, helpless. You knew this fight would last all the rest of our lives.
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This is the fifth post in a series from Kurdistan, which follows our feature article in the March 2016 issue of @ナショナルジオグラフィック magazine. Join us @neilshea13 and @yuri.kozyrev for more from The Other Iraq, where the Kurds battle ISIS and struggle to preserve their young democracy.
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