JINHA

MÊRDÎN – Young people wrote a resistance history in siege lasted 134 days in Mardin’s Nusaybin district. “They were the children of this neighborhood,” said H.K. who lost her son in the resistance, she calls on all women to resist against wire fences which prevent her to take her son’s body.

As 24-hour curfew, which was imposed in Mardin’s Nusaybin district for about five months, has been partly lifted, six neighborhoods have been enclosed with wire fences. Nusaybin women said, “Our belongings aren’t of value more than those children’s lives.” One of these women H. said, “We wish we didn’t have anything but those children would be alive now. They were the children of this neighborhood. I gave birth to my child here. My son was the child of this neighborhood. They fought in their neighborhood for their neighborhood.” Her son Egid witnessed the Ankara Massacre and he took his part in resistance of Nusaybin. H. calls all women to resist in front of wire fences in order to take her son’s body from neighborhood enclosed with wire fences.

H. said her son was handsome and a fine figure of man, “There wasn’t a beautiful young man like him. I can tell of him for hundreds of years.” said H. and she stated that Egid was married and had two children. She said, “Egid gave a name to his son Rohat. Rohat came into the world two months later his father’s death. Rohat was the first youth passed away in the neighborhood so Egid wanted to give this name to his son.

“I cannot sleep. I don’t know if I’m just like that. I always walk around the wire fences. People around think I am looking at my home, in fact I go there for my children behind the wire fences.”

H. calls on all women to gather in front of the wire fences to take her son’s dead body from there. H. stated that her pain will start to a little ease off if she takes her son’s body, she said, “Why do our children behind those wire fences? If you knew your heart is in somewhere, would you risk your life to take it from there? Let’s take our children from there.”

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