Across global demonstrations and in thousands of videos posted online, Kurdish women and their allies have begun braiding their hair in honor of a female Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighter believed to have been murdered by a member of the Syrian army.
The campaign was sparked by a viral video, which The Jerusalem Post was unable to independently verify. In the footage, a man alleged to belong to the Syrian regime’s military can be seen holding a severed braid of hair.
When questioned in the video why he would cut a woman’s hair off, the alleged militiaman responded, “She was already dead,” according to a translation provided by the Kurdish outlet Rudaw. The man referred to the hair’s owner as “Haval,” meaning comrade, which indicated that she was a fighter.
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