Tara and the trip of a million
تاريخ النشر: 01/01/2014
الناشر: مكتبة حسن العصرية للطباعة والنشر والتوزيع
نبذة نيل وفرات:“ It hadn’t been but two weeks earlier I was leaping over the flames of a small bonfire in the hips of our mountains. My bottom side singed, families gathering in gales of laughter, it was Newroz in Duhok.
Now our mountains, gashed and scarred and left exposed ...to invaders’ currents along well-worn paths, began to ooze old sores reopened on this morning, March 31, 1991, and our spring ended abruptly, like the dying man’s last breath, and our collective singing was replaced by the familiar sound of split blood. Two weeks ago the jets began changing the air above us in their continuous rounds. It should have occurred to me then that when allies drop peanuts, they attract angry packs of charging elephants. Two weeks ago U.S. forces were in Kuwait implementing the final stages of clearing the lands of Saddam’s invading troops. At that time Duhok was far from the theater of battle. But slowly we felt the effects. I was watching my father trim his mustache when our electricity went. Our water supply was next, which dwindled into droplets on my sister’s leonine tongue. Soon fuel and food materials became scant.
“Tara and the trip of a million” talks about the difficult journey that Kurds in Iraq made to save their lives from death. However many people lost their lives in the million trip.”
The upper part of the slop overlooked the valley became graveyard for martyrs of the Million trip which enlarged and expanded as days passed, it’s soil hugged that clean bodies whom struggled with death in rear courage, when they defeated by sickness, cold and hunger, they returned to bosom homeland soil, that graveyard will stay as witness of stupidity of that fool creature whom called (Human), who his gigantic mind don’t support him to get rid of (historical madness). I mean, war, killing, blood, torture, fear and severity, that disdain selves whom refused to die like sheep. Fate was against, including nature parameters in that year and that spring time. Heroes of Chali gave immortal example of refusing slavery and taught generations how to love freedom whatever was the scarifications, their pure blood mixed with thousands of martyrs fell into the mountain bosom along many generations, it was a eloquent lesson for generations that the freedom not granted easily. إقرأ المزيد