57. Witnessing the Invasion of Rojava

POPULAR FRONT

Jake Hanrahan

News, Politics

4.8 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

We speak to journalist and filmmaker Khabat Abbas, a local born and raised in Qamishli, NE Syria (or Rojava). She refuses to leave as the Turkish invasion of Rojava gets ever more brutal.

Khabat takes us through the last week and a half, explaining what she's seen on the ground as Turkey and its mercenaries try to destroy what the Kurds have built in NE Syria.

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0:00.0	This is popular front a podcast focus on the very niche and kind of geeky
0:07.4	details of Modern Warfare with me Jake Hanrahan. Today we're speaking again to Habat Abbas.
0:14.8	She's a journalist and filmmaker born and raised in commissally in northeast Syria, also known
0:20.7	as Rajava.
0:22.4	And she's going to be speaking about the current Turkish
0:24.8	invasion on Rajava and the Turkish-backed militias that are roaming around
0:29.3	murdering civilians on camera. One of the civilians murdered actually was a friend of her bats.
0:35.4	I was going to do a big kind of round table for this episode with analysts and all of this.
0:41.0	But I thought, you know what, there's actually something more valuable in just listening
0:45.0	to the eyewitness account of somebody from Rajava and I trust about very much.
0:49.8	She's a great journalist, so I think everybody else can just have a listen.
0:53.2	Sorry about the sound, it's not great but you know about is in Rojava right now so
0:57.8	it is what it is. If you like what we're doing please support us at
1:01.2	Patreon.com Patreon. Come
1:03.0	popular front.
1:04.0	Hey, how I do?
1:06.0	Yeah, I'm good.
1:07.0	How are you?
1:08.0	Uh, I don't know.
1:10.0	Sign listing.
1:11.0	So yeah, where are you at?
1:12.0	You're in commissually right now? Yeah, I mean
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