Where the stones are talking...
„If the
stones could talk“, says the proverb. If one ever comes to Tur Abdin, he stops
thinking about how it came to this wisdom. In Tur Abdin you learn to understand
it, as the stones of Tur Abdin are the real story-tellers!
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What you
see in the picture is not an official Seyfo-memorial.
There is no
official memorial for Seyfo, the 1915 – genocide, in Tur Abdin. But on the
other hand complete Tur Abdin is a memorial. A memorial, formed by all the left
and decaying villages and houses that give witness that the whole population of
Tur Abdin was taken away a hundred years ago.
All the
people, men and women, children, grandparents…
Shot,
slayed, desecrated, displaced. The corpses buried in a hurry, somewhere in the
fields or thrown into one of the caverns…
Delivered
to the wind, abandoned, forgotten – like the left buildings…
There is no
sense in denying that Genocide. It´s useless, as the stones are indicting and
condemning.
They are indicting the murderers and offenders that committed all these
atrocities. They are also condemning those who are still denying and keeping
back what really happened.
Those
stones are talking, they are not tongue-tied.
These
stones are mourning, accusing in silence.
They seem
to be silent – but in reality they are crying, shouting. Clear and loud…
By day and by night…
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