Black day

Sorry...
I would have really liked to not talk about politics again..It's a bit "dry"..I know.
Actually I had decided not to write about politics for a while now, enough is enough I thought..But than something way too tragic and horrible happened.

Most of us still remember the tragic events in Qamishli last year where about 30 persons were killed, after Kurdish demonstrations and clashes with security forces.
Kurds are still loud, still holding vigils and even wide demonstrations.
Certainly we would need people calling for peace- not violence, understanding and forgiveness -not hatred, acceptance and tolerance so Arabs and Kurds live together in peace-and not threaten the unity of the country.
Certainly we need, very much..A religious leader who repeats that Islam and democracy are compatible and calls for moderate Islam, a peaceful, tolerant and open minded Islam..And not a blind ignorant interpretation of it. And certainly the Kurds are a sensitive issue, but using violence..Just brings more violence in the end, even if it would be years later.

But I heard news about many Kurds getting citizenship..
Good I thought, the government did show at last some goodwill..Unfortunately though not until after the tragic events ..
Well, as usual..Disappointed. A man who was just that needed leader, was "disappeared".
And after that there was this demonstration.
Think for a minute now, a group suffering more from security forces than others in this scared place, a group that already been attacked with guns..And had casualties, they..Still had enough courage and anger to have a demonstration of 10 000 participants. Think about this number! Compare it to a 100 or maximum 200, or let's even say 300..That's the number of other Syrians who dares to hold a vigil whenever that happens..A couple of times a year.

Yes, he was a Kurd...And he wanted Kurds to get equal rights as other Syrians...And he believed in demanding and pressuring the government for that. . Aged 46, called for dialog between different religions, popular and respected, by non-Kurdish too, and called for reformes.
I thought he would be either released after some months, or after years... But , no, I never imagined this. How stupid and arrogant is it to kill someone who had big influence on Kurds, and used to call for peace..The hope of tolerance and keeping Qamishli in Syria, and stable, lies with men like him.But instead of talking and debating like civilized, as he called for..His family received his mutilated body with marks of torture.
His family said he had been repeatedly harassed by Syrian security agents before he was found dead. Maybe it was an "accident" though, by his aggressors? Maybe he was supposed to suffer, not die.
Kurds are not as silent as the rest of us Syrians, and "guilty murders" were found : it's just a "civil" crime apparenly..Some few men, coming from and living in a different city than each other!! That, after some public media spred news that maybe it was his relatives killing him over a dispute about money! Acting like an orchestra with a bad maestro!!
Tens of thousands are reported to participated in the funeral, and there were immidiate demonstrations..Regime calls for "calming down and not to open the door of revenge."
Syria need indeed to be united and strong..We already lost beautiful and important Eskandaron to Turkey, and important Golan to Israel..Do we need to loose Qamishli to Kurdistan and have an even smaller map?..Who ever did this, hurt Syria a lot, and is a dangerous ignorant idiot holding a gun...
And I wish intellectuals and others work on gathering many signs from people, to tell, how unjust we think what happened and how we wash our hands from what some animal did..It's very important to say that, loudly.

Most Syrians, unfortunately, don't visit Qamishli often, it's too far, and not a lot of things to do there.. It's the "far west". I was thinking I will change that for my part ..I want to see the most important river in my country and a historically important city, plus maybe meeting nice people from there, and see how they live.. It's important that people from different areas and gropes visit each other and see we are just the same..Just normal people living our lives with hopes and fears..Not enemies. Not different.
I wonder how safe it is to do that now?
Guess we will live and see what happens..