{UAH} Syria: Father of Anna Campbell who died fighting IS battles to bring back her body

Frank Mujabi,/ Alan Barigye

Here is a UK casualty of the war in Syria. So far 8 UK citizens have died fighting with the Kurdish YPG. All of them were young communists.  People ask why they have sacrificed their lives, as they are obviously not mercenaries in it for the money.

Karl  Marx laid out in the Communist Manifesto that communists have no country, and it is a duty for every communist to support a communist struggle anywhere in the world. Thats why since the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, thousands of communists have died in battles far away from their homeland.  Che Guevara for eg fought in 5 Latin American and Caribbean countries and in Africa and eventually was killed in Bolivia., Frantz Fanon, from Martinique in the Caribbean, fought and died for Algerian independence, and others like  Joe Slovo, a white British communist  fought against the apartheid regime in South Africa and is known in folklore as the first military  commander of the black liberation army Umkhonto We Sizwe..and the first man to fire a shot in anger against a boer policeman.

I met the YPG in Cyprus in 2009, and I know they have about 51 UK volunteers and roughly 500 communist volunteers from around the world. They all believe they are answering Karl Marx's  ringing call in the Communist Manifesto.

"Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

Workingmen of all countries unite!"
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto  

Syria: Father of Anna Campbell who died fighting IS battles to bring back her body

Anna Campbell was killed while serving with the Kurdish Women's Protection Units in the northwestern town of Afrin.

Sanya Burgess

News reporter @sanyaburgess

Thursday 24 October 2019 10:32, UK

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The father of the first British woman to die fighting against IS in Syria is campaigning to bring his daughter's remains back to the UK.

Anna Campbell, 26, was volunteering with the Kurdish Women's Protection Units (YPJ) - the all-female brigade of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) - in the besieged city of Afrin when she died in March 2018.

She had travelled to Syria via Lebanon in 2017 and was hit by what is thought to be Turkish airstrikes.

Image:The location of her body is known

Her death made her the eighth British citizen to die in the country, but the first woman.

Dirk Campbell, from Lewes in East Sussex, has launched a legal campaign to bring her body home from the now-Turkish controlled area.

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He said his repeated appeals to both the British and Turkish governments to repatriate Ms Campbell's remains have been so far unsuccessful - despite the exact location of her body being known.

Image:Ms Campbell volunteered for the Kurdish Women's Protection Units

Mr Campbell said: "I have not even been accorded the courtesy of a reply to my repeated request to the Turkish embassy in London.

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"My meetings with the Foreign Office have proved fruitless despite promises to 'do our best'. My MP has done nothing to help. I have been left with no option but to seek legal action.

"Anna gave her life fighting for freedom and the rights and lives of others. It is an embarrassment to the UK and a disgrace and shame on Turkey that her body has been left to rot in the rubble of a ruined city."

Image:Dirk Campbell wants to bring his daughter's body home

The grieving father is fundraising his legal fees to potentially take legal action against Turkey.

Speaking to Sky News shortly after his daughter's death, Mr Campbell said: "It's come to the worst. It's what I had been dreading.

"She wanted a different world, and she knew you couldn't do it by argument. You had to do it, essentially, by fighting fire with fire."

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