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The all-women or 'jin' unit based in Kananshor village near Sinjar mountain is home to a rotating group of female fighters, who are particularly feared by Isis fighters, who believe that if they are killed by a woman they will not get to heaven.
Denis, an energetic 30-year-old fighter from Turkey, said the women set up in Sinjar after Isis stormed the region in August 2014.
Thousands of women were taken captive as Isis seized control of Sinjar in north-western Iraq, home to hundreds of thousands of members of the minority religion Isis has labelled as infidels. Isis abducted younger women and children and murdered men and older women. Those who could not flee were killed and buried in mass graves.
The YBS is an offshoot of the People's Protection Units (YPG) – the paramilitary wing of Syria's Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD). The YPG, who have been one of the most effective forces fighting Isis, are training Yazidi women to fight.
“We have to support these women and help them to protect themselves. Isis took those women and children because they wanted to destroy their honor. We train women to defend themselves and then they can control their own future. That’s why we’re here,” Denis says.
"If we kill them they can't go to heaven. It makes us laugh.We make loud calls of happiness when we see them to let them know we are coming. That’s when they become cowards,” she says.
Under the strict interpretation of Islam by Isis, if a fighter is killed by a women he cannot go to heaven, a fact the women clearly relish
“I like that when we kill them they lose their heaven. I don’t know how many of them I’ve killed,” Haveen says as she takes a drag of her cigarette. “It’s not enough. I won’t be happy until they’re all dead”
“I came to kick Isis out of these lands,” an 18-year-old fighter named Rozaline explains. “I came for the Yazidi women. I saw them cutting women’s heads off. I saw so many awful things. I don’t want to see any more cutting”.
The medical student left her studies to spend three months training with the YPG in the mountains in Syria. A recent recruit to the front line - she arrived four days ago after Isis launched an attack to retake the village - Rozaline says she is there to avenge the Yazidi women.
“I must protect the Yazid women from those animals. I hate them so much, but I’m not afraid. Women sing when we go into battle. We know they are cowards,” she says, while the other ‘jin’ fighters let out the shrill celebratory uluation call they use in battle.
Denis, who has already spent a large part of her life as a fighter, says protecting the Yazidi women is just one step in their plan to defend women’s rights globally.
"You and me, we are free, I am a fighter, you are a journalist but our sisters around the world - they suffer under the power of men. In Africa, in Asia, in Europe and American women suffer like the Yazidis. The fight of our women is a fight for all women," she says.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-in-iraq-the-women-kurd-and-yazidi-fighters-that-put-the-fear-into-jihadis-because-theyll-rob-a6977761.html
