The amazing thing about Syrian revolution, which makes it unique and different from any other revolutions, is that its spark was by children’s hands who were managed with their innocence to break fear barrier in the hearts of million people. It has been up to five years during which thousands were killed and millions were displaced besides economy and understructure have collapsed.
With more pains and the increasing number of the victims, Syrians are gradually becoming just numbers. War has affected the armed less civilians where children have been seeing the daily horrifying scenes against their families. So that war has caused them difficult problems that will not come to an end even if the war is over.
Qossay, from Homs city and aged 15 years, has gone through war with all its details. Scenes have been deeply saved in his memory that he will never ever forget. He saw how regime had returned his father put in a black sack that contained some of his father’s body parts. He has witnessed ruins and destructions, and experienced displacement. He and his mother and brothers could escape death several times.
It was not Qossay fault or even his brothers’ that their father was a fighter in the fronts coming on a day with a burned body, ” I Woke up in the morning and told my father ‘Daddy do not go to fight .. I am afraid that some thing bad may happen to you’ but he replied that if he, my uncle and neighbors stayed at home then who will stop warplanes, then he opened the door and gone”.
Qossay remembered the incidents of the story with every detail where longing and hope could be seen on his face: ” It is true I got sad for losing my father but today I feel that I am very strong .. I have to study and help my brothers to continue on living. Although dad has left us alone in this life, however arouse hope in us to reconstruct Syria”.
Qossay’s mother is like hundreds syrians who have been forced to displacement abandoning their homes due to the brutal bombardment, in order to protect her children away from Homs. She moved with her children to Idlib so they can go to school.
She started with sewing and recycling used clothes where she becomes well known in her neighborhood of which she wins money for living. She works day and night on sewing machine that a charity gave her. Qossay’s mother is an example reflecting the daily life women who lost their husbands are living becoming the breadwinner of their families.
She embraced her kids with sad tears in her eyes hoping and asking Allah to protect her children and help her to raise them.
Qossay who held his brothers’ hands in a untellable scene, said: ” I am here.. I will be your supporter in this life.. Dad has gone but left me to be the man of the family .. we will fight in this life and study to bring Syria as it used to be the smile for all children”.
Syria children are adults who have grown up early; one can find every one of them an adult person taking responsibility at early age. Because this generation has dealt with death and war, it will not forget what has happened so easily.
Will we later see the generation who has passed all difficulties reconstructing the country? Or will we find children lost with the loss of their childhood?
By Rasha Morhaf
Translated by Sabah Najem
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From Under The Rubble.. Children Arouse Hope
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