YJA-Star guerrilla freedom fighters talks about the importance of Heval Zilan

Intelligence attempted an assassination of Kurdish leader, Abdullah Ocalan in Syria, Zeynep Kinaci (Zilan), took the decision to avenge this attempt and also protest against the Turkish regime’s savage and ‘dirty war’ against the Kurdish people in Turkey, which was being hidden from the outside world. She turned herself into a human bomb and on 30 June 1996, walked onto a Turkish military parade in Dersim, amongst the occupying forces of her country, Kurdistan, and ignited the bomb killing around 10 Turkish soldiers and seriously wounding another 44. Before she took this action she wrote three letters to President Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurdish people, and her female comrades. In one of the letters she says: “The enemy wages a total war against us. Our answer must be total resistance in the struggle for our freedom.”