Terrifying new footage shows international aid group Free Burma Rangers under fire earlier this year during their embed with Kurdish forces fighting ISIS.
Two Karen medics and a Karenni cameraman from the organization, founded in 1997 to help medics in warzones in eastern Myanmar, joined a team providing medical and military support to operations in Sinjar, northwestern Iraq.
“We are teaching [the Kurdistani forces] skills we have used in struggle against oppression in Burma,” one of the Karenni volunteers says during the 9-minute film, shot in May.
In one scene, 35km from Mosul, one of the FBR says: “I have seen war in jungles but not in desert.” Then, the screen goes black and panicked voices can be heard.
When the film resumes, smoke can be seen in the distance, from a rocket fired by ISIS towards their position.
Dave Eubank, the former US Special Forces’ Green Beret and Christian missionary who was in charge of the team, told the Democratic Voice of Burma that FBR wants to send another mission to Sinjar.
