Why does a child immolate himself?
Why does a child immolate himself?
We publish this comment by lawyer Reyhan Yalçýndað.
"...In Gülveren (Bahvar) village of Midyat district of Mardin, 15-year-old high school student Fýrat Ýzgin set himself on fire to protest the isolation of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan".
A young boy ends his life by burning himself and this event is passed over silently only with a single sentence on newspapers or TV channels.
Dear dominant media members!
This is not any news that could be passed over. Fýrat, yet 15, is the third child who has immolated himself in the last one year. He had dreams, hope for future and belief in a peaceful solution and the struggle of the Kurdish people whom he belonged to. But what made this young boy set himself on fire? Moreover, in the most painful way in the world! What led him to such a big rebellion and anger in the face of experienced cruelty and injustices?
Isn’t there anything else to say after the fading face of a very young body? The history will certainly ask you for notice if you don’t write the facts that lie behind these deaths. While these children can talk about peace and solution in the letters they leave behind, you abstain from writing about them because of the fact that you are tied to your rulers’ apron strings!
Yes, I ask you now, why does a child immolate himself?
Because his village was burnt down when he was yet too small and he lost his childhood on the ways of migration.
Because his mother or sister was raped in front of his eyes.
Because the foreign objects they found while playing exploded and killed his best friend.
Because his father was held in prison for twenty years after a torture lasting dozens of days.
Because he was despised by his teacher at primary school for not knowing the Turkish language.
Are you still asking the reason? It is his rebel at the cruelty and suppression that his people suffered from. Well then, aren’t all of us guilty for not being able to survive a child? These deaths don’t mean an increase in the figures of registered “dead children”, these deaths at the very outside correspond to an increase in remorselessness and a decrease in humanity. Should we fail to present a near future at which those children can look with hope and trust, we are going to lose them one by one.
Why is a child hurt so bad in his heart?
It hurts because you stole the children’s smiles, didn’t punish the murderers of their peers and protect the rapists of their mothers and sisters.
It hurts because of isolation, torture and deadlock.
It hurts because we haven’t been able to relieve their pains.
And a child burns to death in tents in Van that you failed to warm up.
Bowing with love before the hearts of burning children, I would like to call after Fýrat as follows, just like to those whom we had earlier lost; just to spite to those who didn’t understand you, you said “I am here”. You said that; “They won’t get away with what they did to my people”. Rest in peace, your childhood dreams will definitely become real one day!
Source: Yeni Özgür Politika
"...In Gülveren (Bahvar) village of Midyat district of Mardin, 15-year-old high school student Fýrat Ýzgin set himself on fire to protest the isolation of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan".
A young boy ends his life by burning himself and this event is passed over silently only with a single sentence on newspapers or TV channels.
Dear dominant media members!
This is not any news that could be passed over. Fýrat, yet 15, is the third child who has immolated himself in the last one year. He had dreams, hope for future and belief in a peaceful solution and the struggle of the Kurdish people whom he belonged to. But what made this young boy set himself on fire? Moreover, in the most painful way in the world! What led him to such a big rebellion and anger in the face of experienced cruelty and injustices?
Isn’t there anything else to say after the fading face of a very young body? The history will certainly ask you for notice if you don’t write the facts that lie behind these deaths. While these children can talk about peace and solution in the letters they leave behind, you abstain from writing about them because of the fact that you are tied to your rulers’ apron strings!
Yes, I ask you now, why does a child immolate himself?
Because his village was burnt down when he was yet too small and he lost his childhood on the ways of migration.
Because his mother or sister was raped in front of his eyes.
Because the foreign objects they found while playing exploded and killed his best friend.
Because his father was held in prison for twenty years after a torture lasting dozens of days.
Because he was despised by his teacher at primary school for not knowing the Turkish language.
Are you still asking the reason? It is his rebel at the cruelty and suppression that his people suffered from. Well then, aren’t all of us guilty for not being able to survive a child? These deaths don’t mean an increase in the figures of registered “dead children”, these deaths at the very outside correspond to an increase in remorselessness and a decrease in humanity. Should we fail to present a near future at which those children can look with hope and trust, we are going to lose them one by one.
Why is a child hurt so bad in his heart?
It hurts because you stole the children’s smiles, didn’t punish the murderers of their peers and protect the rapists of their mothers and sisters.
It hurts because of isolation, torture and deadlock.
It hurts because we haven’t been able to relieve their pains.
And a child burns to death in tents in Van that you failed to warm up.
Bowing with love before the hearts of burning children, I would like to call after Fýrat as follows, just like to those whom we had earlier lost; just to spite to those who didn’t understand you, you said “I am here”. You said that; “They won’t get away with what they did to my people”. Rest in peace, your childhood dreams will definitely become real one day!
Source: Yeni Özgür Politika
