INTERNATIONALISM
People which have a big love for life and woman which want to life freely form themselves while walking on this hard paths. The ones that make the decision to walk on the path of freedom are the ones that know how to create themselves new. The ones that accept the struggle against big injustice, nastiness, colonialism as a form of life, know also that it’s not just the path of some few people. They know that it’s not just done with smartness and strength but more with strength and following your heart. They become one with the path they walk on. They become the path. They become the aim they wanted to reach on this path.
To choose the difficult, to choose the impossible is the character of those who with a strong conviction for freedom set foot on the path of freedom. The ones which want to continue their life with “human dignity” doesn’t choose the easy and cheap successes. One of the things that makes them different is this: To pass this sort of borders in our head which were made by the mentality and the rules of life of the capitalist-patriarchal system one always has to be questioning and being an actively thinking person. To find new thinks one always has to be searching. This was actually the quality of Alina Sanchez “Legerin” which in her search for a free life 
showed the bravery to go to the other part of the world, thousands of kilometers away from the land she was born on. I will not talk very long about the life of comrade Legerin, which in every approach, in every movement in life showed the beauty of the thoughts and the heart looking for freedom. I will tell you some from different times and places each other crossing memories. The first time we met in Europe. The first time when I saw comrade Legerin it had a very different effect on me. She came in contact with the Kurdish people and it’s struggle for freedom while coming to Europe for traveling. She was a medicine student. In this field she also met with young Kurds which study the same. This for hundreds of years ongoing struggle against colonialism, capitalism on the American continent, the experience and stories of the resistance of woman and the peoples had a big impact on the personality of comrade Legerin and her daily standing. She made it to one of her fundamental principles and to her philosophy to stand against injustice wherever it occurred and to stand side by side wherever resistance happened.
This was exactly the first energy I took from her when I first met comrade Legerin. It seemed that she knew the Kurds for ages and also knew the Kurdish freedom struggle very well. Even though she met people for the first time and didn’t new the language she was able to directly interact with them very warmly. Someone’s sincerity, someone’s naturalness is a proof of how strong the convictions of a person is. We didn’t spoke the same language with comrade Legerin but as woman, in the search for freedom we had a lot in common. We spoke with the language of our hearts and an intuitive logic. She was a woman that had the power to do so. In her eyes, you could see that she had quiet a few questions. Questions that were a lot more than just “Who are the Kurds, where is Kurdistan?” She wanted to understand and learn about the ideology, the philosophy of this struggle. Yes, she was very interested in the deeper ideological-philosophical-historical and society aims of this struggle.
Every revolutionary has the thirst for adventure, that’s how it should be. That always leads him/her towards the new and it’s one of the things that are like an obstacle for being kept in a place or staying there for too long. That’s at the same time this aim of the universe this ‘search for freedom’. It is important to know that the path of the revolution is not decorated with a lot of safeties or circumstances of guarantees for your life. Stability, a constant energy doesn’t exist. A revolutionary or an explorer has to keep the energy always in a flow in relation to the search, the movement or to create something new. This exactly, this flow of energy was possible to see in the character of comrade Legerin.
Comrade Legerin chose her name by herself. Legerin in Kurdish means “search” or “to search”. How meaningful… What a nice and meaningful connection to Abdullah Öcalan, the founder of the Kurdistan freedom struggle, the founder of this struggle and it’s first traveller and his questioning of life and special form of searching… Because the Kurdistan freedom struggle is not just the search of liberation for the colonised earth but also for the colonised woman, people, spirits, cultures, minds and hearts.
The second time when I met with comrade Legerin it was in the mountains of Kurdistan in the area of the guerilla. She is visiting the guerrilla in the mountains of Kurdistan for discusses and talks with them about historical, society and ideological topics. We met in the academy of Şehit Zeynep Kınacı from the Free Woman’s Movement of Kurdistan. Comrade Legerin gave seminars about South America from the historical-religious-mythological-geographical-cultural and society aspect. On the one hand she studied and learned about Kurdistan and the Middle East while on the other hand she told revolutionary woman and man from Kurdistan the history of colonization and resistance of America. The managed to connect this for hundreds of years ongoing search for freedom from the people of her soil with the one from the Middle East. She walked through the mountains, miles and miles. Under the sun of Kurdistan she sweat, got tired and set step by step forward on this dusty paths. And whoever she met, if it was someone who just joined the struggle or someone already 40 years fighting on these mountains, she didn’t hide her deep down from her heart coming smile. Her Kurdish made progress with confident steps. She listened to everyone very carefully. Her laugh came so much from the inside, her participation in daily life was so natural that with her modesty she was able to create an atmosphere of deep friendship. Whoever saw her would assume that she was living together with the guerrilla for ages.
Video in memory of Şehîd Lêgerîn.
Her effort to read and understand the new paradigm of comrade Abullah Öcalan was very high. She had a very different approach then just ‘to show solidarity with the Kurdish people’. She joined with the responsibility of a revolutionary to put this paradigm for a democratic, ecological and woman’s liberating society into practice. Whenever a guerrilla fighter or guerrilla commander saw her, after finding out that she was from Argentina they ‘told her about Ernesto Che Guevarra and what Che’s meaning and importance was for them’. And also ‘Yes our revolution and our people need support in the health and treatment sector’. But comrade Legerin didn’t shared this view to see herself just as a ‘doctor’. She said: ‘actually one could call everyone on this mountains, everyone which is resisting is Che’ and she said that will be returning to this soil as a revolutionary. She had this promise she gave to her family, her mother and especially to her father that she ‘would finish the medicine study and get her diploma’. Comrade Legerin gave her promise during this visit to the mountains of Kurdistan and especially to the comrades from the freedom guerrilla of Kurdistan. And she went back to her country.
Comrade Legerin successfully finished her medicine studies in Cuba in 2012. She got her diploma. Then she went back to Aegentina. She fulfilled the promise she gave to her loved ones. With her Kurdish comrades she met some in the same year on her own soil. She told them that she waned to go to Kurdistan. She was told that as an international doctor her contribution to the revolution was very meaningful and valuable. But she aimed at something a lot bigger. She didn’t waned just to become ‘a doctor’. She didn’t waned to live in the capitalist system and make some contribution with her job. She says: ‘I don’t have any dream, wish or search to return to this life within this system. I don’t want to live in this system. I want that you get me right. I don’t have the plan to go to Kurdistan and help and then come back here. I want to join the establishment and creation of a completely new system.’ This woman that was able to overcome all this borders which were drawn by this oppressive-state-colonizing system, this person that joined this revolutionary journey to live bigger, more meaningful and free also led us develop new points of view. And comrade Legerin joined the more and more growing struggle to create and build an alternative system, a system of democratic confederalism in Kurdistan, in Rojava.
Her path to walk on she found in the paradigm of democracy, ecology and woman’s liberation. I had the luck to meet her once again in Rojava. She worked in the hospital of Serekaniye. It was in the time when the offensive to liberate Minbic was started. A historical struggle against ISIS was continuing. To safe the wounded from the battlefield comrade Legerin and the whole health workers worked day and night. Every death slipped over her look like a shadow. It was readable from the look on her face how hard this pain was to loose a person physically. And to get a person back to life… In this moments one could see how the eyes of comrade Legerin were filled with light and how the sun was glimmering in her face. She worked in hard conditions. In this circumstances we had a chat for some hours. We shared our thoughts, criticisms and suggestions on the Revolution of Rojava. And yes, once again I saw what kind of deep ideological analyse my comrade made, with the point of view of our new paradigm and our existing positive and negative experience of this revolution. She was not a spectator. I saw in her the standing of a vanguard woman that was taking her revolutionary responsibility. She had ideas and thoughts on everything from criticism to solutions. She was someone that didn’t gave up while confronted with difficulties but shared her quest for a solution with others. That way she was a vanguard for a communal life. She had the maturity, wherever it should be, in which revolution of the world, to be able to keep this standing, to take this responsibility.
While we said good bye to each other she said: ‘I’m really sorry but I have to go back to the hospital, they bring wounded comrades, I have to be there.’ and went away. While I was looking at her walking away I understood once again that the Rojava Revolution and in general the revolution in Kurdistan with comrades like Legerin managed to make itself universal, growing more and more on a very stabile fundament. Legerin became our bridge to connect us to the universal energy and to all the universal values of humanity. She opened up a new path for us. She managed to become one of our paths for the search of a free life. Now our march is toward all this Legerins.
The day that we were physically separated from her, March 17th of 2018, was a really hard day for us. To continue the path on which we walked with comrade Legerin, to be honoured by being on the same side of the struggle with her, to got to know her sacrifices gave us big responsibility and it strengthen us in our insistence in the search for a free life.
Source: Revista Lêgerîn
