(La Stampa-Italy) Giordano Stabile - Claudio Locatelli, 29, a native of Curno in northern Italy, says he used to be "an activist, a freelance journalist, and a barkeeper." Now, he is part of the Kurdish YPG "International Brigade," modeled after those who fought in the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. There are Danes, Germans, Americans, and Canadians who have come for the "Kurdish cause" and to destroy ISIS. Locatelli says, "The thing that pushed me the most to come here was the massacre of the Yazidi, the raping of an entire population, that's what ISIS is, a monster opposed to each and every one of our ideals. I couldn't limit myself to activism, to reporting; I had to fight."
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