Omed Khoshnaw should remain hopeless

Nahro Sabah

If today’s teachers and protesters are considered, in your view, to be “criminals” and “unwanted guests”, if in the view of your agha and your leader they are labeled a “threat to power”, then know this: in our view, in the view of every freedom-loving human being, they are honor, dignity, and the true symbol of freedom.
They are the voice that you will never be able to silence. They are the light that, within the darkness of your corruption and the lies of your power, fills you with fear.

There is a truth you have tried very hard to hide:
The enemy of the nation is not the teacher, not the protester. The enemy of the nation is the authority that for 34 years has sucked the people’s blood and destroys everything except itself. Being “unwanted” is what suits an authority that oppresses the nation, not those who demand the people’s rights and bread.

We are not only fed up with you; rather, we look at you with disgust.
Whenever we see your faces full of lies, whenever we hear your voices full of threats, a question like a dagger is driven into our minds:
What was our crime?
What was it that for 34 years our bread was stolen, our voices were silenced, our lives were burned, and our country was turned into the private property of power?

That great force you deployed today in the streets to beat, break, and humiliate teachers and protesters is not a sign of strength; it is the open display of fear and defeat. A day will come when neither that force, nor weapons, nor soldiers, nor your laws will be able to save you from the flood and rage of an oppressed nation.

Do you think this voice will stop? No. Will this struggle be broken? No. Will this nation be afraid? Never. This will not happen. Your names will be written in the pages of history.