She was small when she picked up the guns. Too small to get involved in bloody and merciless battles. Her conscience, however, but also what she had experienced, did not leave her much room. He wanted to change the world. And if she knew that this was difficult, she wanted to put her own little stone in a change that she knew that most likely she would not see. And yet. She dedicated herself with all her strength to the struggle, she offered her blood. Her own life.
When she fell dead in a jihadist ambush, she was called "Angelina Jolie». And because she was no longer here to defend herself, her comrades undertook to do so, angrily emphasizing in every tone that Asia Ramadan Adar was not a Hollywood sex symbol but a symbol of the struggle against fundamentalism. and sexism.
Even today, four years after her death, he inspires his rebels Kurdistan who hold the same weapons she held and fight for the exact same projects hoping to live what Asia could not: The world change…
She was born in 1996 on her border Syria with Turkey. Her hometown was Kamisli. From a young age, she was confronted with a society that completely degrades the role of women.
She herself had been forced to perform a wedding she did not want. They forcibly married her but she could not bear it and after only three months she divorced and left her city.
With the rise of the Islamic State, she considered that it was a battle that she had to take part in and so in 2014 she joined the ranks of the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) which is the women's section of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).
During the few years she lived as a rebel, she managed to stand out in the battles for her courage and self-denial. He took part in many battles in which the jihadists were defeated and took part in five special operations ranging from the killing of leading opponents to the recapture of territories that had fallen into the hands of ISIS members.
Those who lived next to her say that she never hesitated to enter the fire. The young man seems to have overcome the feeling of self-preservation every time and her passion overcame her fear.
The military name given to them was Viyan Antar. She was the leader of her unit and a heavy weapons operator. Within two years, six of her relatives - cousins and uncles - were killed in the war against him. Islamic State but even that did not stop her from continuing her fight.
The battles between them Kurdish Islamic State fighters and jihadists have always been very cruel and merciless. Above all else was the tough battle between two worlds. The world of freedom versus the world of slavery. Of light against darkness.
On August 30, 2016, the Adar unit launches another operation against them jihadists. This time he was in Manbij.
According to all the facts and details that have become known about that battle, Adar gave her life to prevent a bomb attack against her team. In particular, three cars full of explosives attacked her unit. Despite the fact that the Kurdish fighters managed to destroy both of them, the driver of the third managed to detonate the explosives and as a result he exploded.
The Kurdish fighter, although she saw that the chances were not in her favor, tried to stop the jihadist from firing the explosives. She herself knew that the odds were not in her favor, but she did not stop. When the explosion took place, unfortunately, Asia Ramadan Adar was very close and as a result it lost its life.
Sadness and mourning gripped Kurdish rebel units. They mourned the loss of Adar and many of them uploaded photos of her on social media to honor her with moving words. It was then that some Western media presented her as "Angelina Jolie of Kurdistan", due to her resemblance to the Hollywood star.
"Adar was a symbol of the struggle and not a symbol of sex," the Kurdish fighters shouted in those early days in order to stop this comparison, which for them was more than offensive as it tarnished their comrade.
This comparison was enough to provoke the anger of her comrades-in-arms, who spoke of sexism and treating the warrior as an object.
Especially from the Kurdish Women's Protection Units (YPJ), to which Ramadan also belonged, they clarified that the philosophy of these women is simplicity and modesty. Based on this philosophy, no one is judged by his external appearance, while each person makes his own personal sacrifices and retreats based on the common good.
«The whole YPJ philosophy is against sexism and acts as a deterrent to the use of women as sexual objects. We want to give women the place they deserve in society, we want them to own their destiny. Viyan died for these ideals, but the guy did not even deal with them, for which she even gave her life. "Nowhere was written what he achieved for the women of Rojava all the previous years", explained one of the people who fought on her side.