55 thousand prisoners of the revolution, today disappeared by Al Assad
Their pictures are not just numbers
In Syria, the security services of Al Assad regime started to persecute the volcano that erupted against the Baathist entity in 2011 in many ways. The doors of their prisons were opened for those who were part of it and those jails were ready to torture in the most horrible way!
In every revolution there are honest people. In each movement there are persons that have their place in the pages of history. Caesar appeared with 55 thousand histories of pain, 55 thousand disgraces, 55 thousand wounded, 55 thousand killed, 55 thousand tears of a mother, 55 thousand pictures of detained that were killed under the claws of violence. Those 55 thousand are not just numbers. Each image means the comfort of a family that dreamt with the hope of meeting them again.
Maybe dying once would be easier than dying thousands of times a day, and if these people could talk they would tell us the meaning of dying a thousand times repeatedly.
The pictures gave us a lot back. With them, the meaning of the tragedy of the prisoner, of oppression and death without being able to do anything!
Many refused to look for their beloved ones in the pictures among the leaked pictures, fearing to find them and knowing they died under the hands of injustice behind bars. They have been waiting for a mirage for years, with the hope they would return.
Could you imagine the huge amount of tears in the cheeks of the mothers, the wives, the women whose world torn apart after losing the household? Or those of the children who grew up without knowing the meaning of the word “father”? From being a mountain, going back to Dacca.
Oh martyrs of the prison! We will never forget you! We won’t forget your tears and your blood! We won’t forget your pain and hopes! We won’t forget the lament of your mothers, the crying of your children and the day where the criminal will suffer such a fate! That day is close.
Steif Abu Izen
Correspondent from Idlib for the paper The Truth of the Oppressed