Tel al-Mellouhi, the 19 year old girl who blogged poems off Palestine and was arrested last year on charges of espionage and sentenced for five years in prison may be dead. Unconfirmed source indicate that she may have died in her sleep because wounds sustained from the brutal torture she was allegedly subjected to during her incarceration.
Unlike the "Gay Girl in Damascus" hoax blogger, Tel is a very real girl and her incarceration is both documented and corroborated by human rights groups. She blogged passionately with the strong convictions of her integrity and paid for it because of a paranoid state that will not tolerate decent. A regime that is bent on murdering all those who oppose it, domestic and foreign.
To die so young for an unconscionable reason is a tragedy beyond comprehension. All this courageous girl did was write poems and blog for a cause that she believed in. she did not incite violence. She did not call for the over throw of the Assad regime. Yet she paid the price for expressing her freedom of speech and belief.
It breaks my heart to wake up to the reality of a world that unequal, a world that suppresses the voices of those whom are disenfranchised with the way the world is going. This brave girl did nothing more than exercise her basic human right and now she may be dead.
How many more innocent children will the regime of the Butcher Assad murder? How many more people will they humiliate? How many more people will the torture? How many more people will they kill before the rest of the world does something about it?
What kind of a national threat did Tel invoke for her to deserve this fate? The Assad regime of Syria has certainly lost its marbles if it thinks it can survive after this moment. It would be fool hardy for the Assad regime to think that the people will forget with time. Atrocities like this stay with a person till the end of time. I, who has not endured anything near what the Syrian people are now enduring, but who has lived through the atrocities of a civil war in neighboring Lebanon, have not forgotten the smell and sight of death even 20 years since the civil war has ended. How can anyone then think that The Syrian people, Mothers deprived of her flesh and blood children, Children orphaned of their fathers and mothers fallen while escaping the barbarism of the regime thugs. Children as young as 13, maybe younger, abducted, tortured, mutilated, cold bloodedly murdered and then returned to their families, mangled bodies, to instill fear and submission.
The people will not forget and neither should the world.
How many more will have to die before the world wakes up and lends a supporting hand to the dying Syrian people.
The events in Syria are dangerously bordering genocide at this point and it would seem that the world has not yet learned from its mistakes and a long history of genocides and holocausts.
The people want freedom. The people want peace. Not just for the Syrian people but for all those who live under an umbrella of fear. We want peace. We want our children to grow up and learn to be the best that they can and not to have to endure hell itself, not to die so young as not to fulfill their destiny.
We are allowing the murder of our future. We are condemning ourselves to violence. And all for what? For power? For money? useless things that we can never take with us to the grave. It never ceases to amaze me how people chose to become immortalized by history as butchers and villains.
The Assad regime has gone too far. They went too far 40 years ago, not just now.
The violence must end
Our children deserve to live in world free of our sins and that of our forefathers. Our children deserve to grow up in peace not in fear. Our children deserve to live.
Light a candle for Tel al Mallouhi, and pray that the news of her death is nothing more than unsubstantiated speculation.
The people want to be free. The people want to live in peace. These are basic rights that all humans are entitled to, and when one group of people is denied this right then it makes all humans around the world guilty of allowing such travesties to go un-hindered. The world has failed the down trodden. The world is too preoccupied with selfish pursuits to care about those who die fighting for their existence. Just like the world turned a blind eye to the Armenian genocide, just like the world turned a blind eye to Rwanda, Cambodia, Russia, Nazi Germany, the murder of aboriginals in America, Australia and other places, and many more on a list that is far too long for the comfort of a sensitive mind. Far too many have needlessly died and we, the rest of the world, have ignored it in favor of selfish pursuits.
No one deserves the fate of the down trodden Syrian people. Tel al-Mallouhi did not deserve to die for her courage and passion to live a life under a merciless regime.
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