University students

I am very sad, I can’t write, for the past four days I couldn’t write, it was a big shock, not to me only, but to all the people around me, I want to ask those who killed the university students, why you did that??? their mothers were waiting for them, they were preparing lunch for them, they were very proud of them, they wished they could hold their sons or girls, they wished they could tell them how much they loved them, they wished they could understand why you killed them, they wished to say goodbye to their lovely young, yes they were very young to die, what did they do for you, why did you kill them ? I want to cry ” why did you kill the students?” they have books not arms, they have future, but oh they have nothing now, God bless them.

Did you see Ahmed in the daily telegraph, the eight-year-old boy on the front line with the terrorists, It is one of the most shocking images from the war on Syria. An eight-year-old boy draws deeply on a cigarette, the small fingers of his other hand clutching a an AK-47 rifle that balances awkwardly against his chest, they want our students to be terrorists, they don’t want them to learn, but to stay ignorant, murderers, and villains, who kill each other.

I wish I can see the face of the murderer, is he happy?  It is the act of senseless violence that shocked all Syrian people, and has left us with the unfathomable question :

” Why?” I would like to ask you, for hundred times why you did it, why you took the life of innocent boys and girls away?

You caused us pain, but more suffering to their parents, but I think you are emotionless to understand the feeling of people, have you a mother? Have you a son? Have you a blood in your veins? No I don’t think so.

Before the global war on Syria, we were living in peace, we couldn’t imagine that there are such persons on this earth, you are such a cruel man, such a bad man, you have no empathy, no emotion, you have nothing except cruelty. I feel pity for you and for your mother, I don’t think she knows what you did, but God knows and will not forgive you.

These students were gifted, one day they may become architects, they may have many plans to build Syria, the buildings you have destroyed with your evil friends, who came from other countries just to destroy Syria, I know that it was a very tragic loss for all real Syrians, it is our destiny to suffer, we have to live our lives, and life goes on. We Syrians will stay together, and will take care of each other, we will move on, although your act of cruelty you brought about the premature death of bright students, who already achieved so much and had so much to look forward to in the future, they will not come back, the painful realization that their life was snuffed out for ever, but their spirit will be always around us, to encourage us, suffering cannot crush us, but make us more stronger, instead of looking at obstacles, mishaps, or bad experiences as terrible drawbacks and horrible handicaps, we can use those things to better our own lives and the lives of others.

“The beautiful colors of the rainbow can only be seen through the prism of rain”.

Butheina Alnounou