Australian YPG fighter Reece Harding martyred in Mişêrfa

2015-07-01 20:44:26

NEWS DESK (DİHA) - YPG Press Office has announced in a written statement that Australian YPG fighter Reece Harding with nom de guerre Bagok Serhed, lost his life in Mişêrfa on 27 June 2015. YPG reported that Reece Harding had joined the YPG ranks on 4 May 2015 from Cizîr.

YPG said in its statement that defenders of humanity have always got united around freedom, equality and peace and rebelled against repressions and cruelty throughout the history. YPG said the Kurdish people are today playing an important role in the most legitimate struggle of the peoples of the world and resisting against the dark powers and despotic ones.

YPG stressed that the Kurdish people continue the resistance despite the losses and will continue this one of the longest and most difficult struggle in the world history. YPG said the struggle for freedom and equality is today being waged in Rojava, which has become the hope of all the female and male freedom lovers.

YPG said young people from all over the world come and join the resistance in Rojava to realize the hope for freedom, adding that this truth proves that the humanity marches along around the same principles and for the same legitimate struggle.

YPG said they have had many invaluable comrades and fighters during the struggle, adding that most of them have not known much about the other’s language, religion or culture, but came together around the same struggle.

Reece Harding joined the YPG ranks on 4 May 2015 to fight against the ISIS gangs, receiving the nom de guerre of his friend Ashley Kent Johnston who also fell in the fight against the ISIS gangs in Rojava. YPG said Harding wanted to keep the hopes of Johnston alive and thus joined the fight.

YPG said Harding was an intelligent and wise comrade, with a full sense of responsibility and sensitivity towards his friends, and a moral-boosting figure in the fight through his courage. It added that Harding would do anything, personal or military, to defend his friends and that he became a precedent person among his friends in a short time.

Harding took part in the second stage of the operation Rubar Qamislo that was launched on 6 May and in the liberation of many villages achieved in the scope of the operation.

YPG said Comrade Bagok (Reece) lost his life on 27 June as a result of a mine explosion in the operation to liberate Mişêrfa, which is located in the triangular area between Raqqa, Girê Sipî and Kobanê. The statement said YPG/YPJ fighters are deeply saddened by the loss of a cheerful friend.

YPG offered condolences to the family of Reece Harding and to all the peoples and vowed to remain loyal to the hopes and struggle of Harding and to carry the struggle to a victorious end.

The ID info of the fallen YPG fighter is as follows:

Name and surname: Reece Harding

Nome de Guerre: Bagok Serhed

Place of birth: Middle Swan, Australia

Date of birth: 31 August 1991

Date of participation: 04 May 2015

Date of death: 27 June 2015

Place of death: Mişêrfa

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