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AMED –Şevin Human, who joined the YPJ only to lose her life in the first month of the resistance in Kobanê, left behind a story of resistance in spite of her short life.

According to her mother Selma, Şevin was exceptionally smart and hardworking, and beloved at school. "Everyone who knew her was a huge fan of her hospitality."

In 1993, the Human family moved to the Diyarbakir city center after Turkish soliders burned down the family's small hamlet, called Qûrmik (Kütüklü in Turkish),near the village ofMelê (Yünlüce). Şevin was born in 1995, the family's fifth child. In 2003, the family was able to return to Lice.

After finishing high school in Lice, Şevin began to prepare for university entrance examinations. But after following the Rojava revolution closely, she decided in May to join the YPJ, taking on the nom de guerre DicleAmed. She signed the letter she left to her mother: "Hoping to meet again in a free country."

Şevin lost her life on October 25, 2014, fighting on the eastern front of Kobanê, in the first months of the city's resistance against gang attacks. A group of women bore her coffin on their shoulders to Lice's Hevidar Martyr Cemetery.

"She's not the first martyr in our family, but I hope she'll be the last," said Selma. "The officials closing their eyes to the deaths of so many young people should be ashamed. But we hold our heads high. Our children's struggle is an honorable one."

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