Picture of the Day - 3
PKK female guerillas fire a rifle during military exercises in the mountains of northern Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region. In a part of the world known for the subordination of women, nowhere do females play a greater role than in the ranks of this Kurdish movement.(AFP/File/David Furst)
posted by mikevotes at
2:15 PM
3 Comments:
The west doesn't want to give the Kurds their own state because it would very likely open a guerilla war with Turkey(more than now.)
That last sentence is an interesting version of empowerment.
And, yeah, I really do like this picture.
Every once in awhile I run across one that speaks to me, and this one has echoes of resistance movements, of "the fight" throughout modern history.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 3:28 PM
Great. Kurdish "girls with guns."
Reminds me of the pictures we used to see back in the day of female Viet Cong guerilla fighters.
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QuakerDave, at 3:36 PM
Yeah, I got the worldwide flash, too, but to me I got a Latin America and Central Europe flash.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 5:36 PM
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