The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commemorated the fallen commander Xebat Dêrik with a army ceremony. The co-founder of the Individuals’s Protection Units (YPG), whose actual title was Mahmoud Ramadan, was significantly injured in a focused assassination try by the Turkish state and counter-revolutionary forces in Qamishlo on 7 January 2012. He succumbed to his extreme gunshot wounds seven days later in a hospital in Aleppo.
The commemoration started with a minute’s silence for all these fallen in Rojava. “There may be hardly an individual within the liberated areas of Northern and Jap Syria who will not be conscious of the energy and significance of Xebat Dêrik for the revolution and our mission of a democratic nation,” stated SDF commander Luqman Xelîl. He paid tribute to Xebat Dêrik who, he stated, was “a singular revolutionary who spent his life combating for the liberation of all oppressed and for peoples to reside on an equal footing.”
Xebat Derik
Xebat Dêrik was born in 1962 within the village of Kazan in Dêrik to a household with a practice of the Kurdish resistance. Like many Kurdish households below the Syrian Ba’ath regime, his mother and father had been financially in a precarious state of affairs. Xebat Dêrik left faculty early and went to Damascus as a young person to work and assist his household. In 1985 he needed to do his army service for the Syrian military, which he did in neighbouring Lebanon. Right here he additionally received to know the PKK higher.
In the identical yr, Xebat Dêrik abandoned and went to the Lebanese Bekaa Valley, the place the well-known Mahsum Korkmaz Academy was positioned. He met Abdullah Öcalan, and in 1987, he went to the mountains of Kurdistan to affix the PKK guerrillas. He fought towards the Turkish occupation in virtually all areas of Kurdistan, skilled commanders, belonged to the Navy Council of the Individuals’s Protection Forces (HPG) and its predecessor organizations and was a member of the Central Council of the Group of Kurdistan Societies (KCK).
Xebat Dêrik spent greater than 20 years of his life with the guerrillas. After the uprisings started in Syria, he returned to Rojava to assist with the reconstruction work.
On his initiative, the self-protection items of the YXG (Yekinêyên Xweparastina Gel), which had been arrange in 2011, had been restructured into the Individuals’s Protection Units – YPG.
Along with Turkish brokers, Kurdish collaborators had been additionally concerned within the lethal conspiracy towards Xebat Dêrik. The hit man was a member of the Bedro household from the atmosphere of anti-revolutionary teams that based the so-called ENKS (Kurdish Nationwide Council) in 2011. Xebat Dêrik was a visitor at Abdullah Bedro’s home when he was hit from behind shortly after leaving. Even then, this homicide made clear Turkey’s energetic “curiosity” within the state of affairs in Rojava.
