Song to pay tribute to internationalist YJA-Star guerrilla Sara Dorşin

Internationalists working with the Women Defend Rojava campaign published a video and song commemorating the life and resistance of YJA-Star guerrilla Sara Dorşin (Sara Handelmann).

Internationalists working with the Women Defend Rojava campaign published a video and song commemorating the life and resistance of YJA-Star guerrilla Sara Dorşin (Sara Handelmann). 

Sarah Almuth Handelmann was born in Germany on 25 November 1985 and grew up in a small village in East Germany. After school, she studied literature for three years in Tübingen, where she got to know radical left-wing ideas and felt part of the anarchist movement. She then studied at the film school in Berlin and later worked as a camerawoman. She got to know the Kurdish movement while shooting the film Xwebûn 2016 in Amed (tr. Diyarbakir) in North Kurdistan and was touched and inspired by the resistance of the women and the entire population. As a feminist, it was above all the strong organization of women that gave her hope for her own perspective.

In 2017, she went to Rojava, where, after a short time, she made the decision to join the women's guerrilla YJA-Star in the mountains of South Kurdistan. She took the name of Sara (from Sakine Cansız) to continue her fight. On 7 April 7, she and other friends fell in the mountains following an air raid by the Turkish army.