Children living behind Nusaybin's barricades

14:47

JINHA

MÊRDÎN - Children rebuild a new life behind the barricades in the Nusaybin's resistance neighborhoods. " They kill children. We feel safe behind the barricades," said Children.

There is many different life stories behind of each barricade in the Nusaybin district of Mardin against the war policies. Citizens use their self-defense against the attacks. Children also have their share of this war.
Children are forced to face the reality of war. They have eyewithness the death and injury of their friends. These days, the children's agenda is how protect themselves. The children who live in the Zeynelabidin neighborhood of Nusaybin, are building barricades to protect themselves and their neighborhoods. Osman, one of those children, said, " I don't know if they are Erdoğan's Esadullah team, but they kill children for money. Is it worth living a dishonorable life for a few cents? I and my friends have decided to stay here and resist."

Osman said that there is a life behind the barricades. He pointed out that Nusaybin children know the bullets and shrapnel due to the attacks. Children have collected and hidden the bullets and shrapnel to show when the criminals go to trial. "They says "Kurds are terrorists". Turkish state must come here, we will show them these bullets are whose. We just want to be free in our neighborhoods."

Firuze, another child in Nusaybin, stated that they strengthened the barricades every morning. Firuze told us what she experience during 24-curfew which has been declared six times in Nusaybin. Firuze said that she feels safe behind the barricades. "They enter our schools. They control our bags. They look us as if we are their enemies." said Firuze.

As Dilan pointed out that children have been killed, her friend Nurullah said, "Half of those murdered in the basements in Cizre were children. They still just sit there without shame.They have to leave us alone, if not, we will fight against them when we grow up."

(zd/gc/gd)