Syrian poet Faraj Bayraqdar: teaches terror nest in people's memory
Syrian poet Faraj Bayraqdar, I spent in Syrian prisons, fourteen-year-old detainee policy, these years I have described to the description in the novel, titled "Options for language and silence, Tgraybti in the prisons of Syrian intelligence," and read it feel that the writer is still a prisoner, is this sense of right and whether You are still in prison?
This may be the most difficult book Thou didst suffer in the suffering of my writings throughout the history of my life, I really typed in 3 and a half months and I am in prison, and the reason for the pressure at this time is my sense that my health is threatened, and therefore decided that this was revealed to be on my shoulders. Typed on paper of cigarettes. I will not hide when I typed went through this experience again in all its stages, from arrest to interrogation and torture and pressure in all its forms, suffered by political prisoners in Syria, and therefore I was imprisoned twice, once in prison for 14 years, and the imprisonment of intense sense of moral sense evoke the memory most plants the period of detention, I actually wrote the facts, and look after only the manner in writing, and language've treated, and Ahtvaii language helped me to reduce the doses of pain to remember.
"People Have To Learn"
When I finished the book I felt more liberated. Freedoms of the Interior was found despite the arrest, but when I finished I felt as if I were some kind of reckoning with the experience of prison, and thus reflected positively on and on Rouhiti or Manoiti, or my psychological in general, and therefore I say that this book set me free, although he is talking about family and the families of others who lived with them in that.
I myself before Jail when I heard the news about the imprisonment and torture you say This is an exaggeration, and these statements are not true and therefore had a duty as a writer to convey this experience, my own experience and the experience of the group she was with me, and we took together to destroy the five years. Then my experience in Sednaya prison, which I spent four years in which the rest of the session. It was necessary to tell the truth even though it painful, people needed to know. This is true of a book on the prison, but it is defending freedom.
Novel opens the reader a window on a dark world, a world of prisons and investigations, would you imagine before your arrest that man is able to exert such a brutal torture?
Not, in fact I did not imagine that, I did not think that the human or the proportion of people can reach those things behave in this barbaric, even if they had more orders from above, there are people who come upon them the command from above but they do not carry them out of the brutality, if ordered to strike a prisoner 300 trying to hit him 100 lashes, for example, but in some cases after hitting one of them 300 lashes of the prisoner says curiosity was not satisfied, and adds a number of his own last. This is the infernal machine of repression. Some stupid to the point or a weak culture so that they can Itabo political or sectarian or for various reasons, so they were able to animate the destruction of mankind were probably perfectly safe.
They are trying to damage the prisoner physically, but in fact Mattopon psychologically, and have lost their humanity, and it is painful for me when I think that what hit me was left to have any measure of humanity. But I wonder Is this guilt? Of course it is a personal responsibility, but the primary responsibility lies on this infernal machine that organizes all the security services and methods. Is a disgrace to the system itself, how to accept a system that converts part of the prisoner to his people, and distorted both physically and take away the dignity and freedom? Unfortunately destroyed the tyranny, especially the totalitarian type of it, a big part of our people.
You taste the bitterness of prison, and today lives Syria turbulent times, how you look at this scenario Syrian?
I think the Syrian people began protests or rebellions in the early times, but miscarried a brutal way, is now most of the facts known to me and thousands like me, who entered the prison began with great optimism that the revolution is coming and that our people will move, and spent years and people did not move. I say that the revolution was deferred or Mvute, but I feel no sense of moment that our people will remain forever submissive, but for the moment will come and there will be circumstances that moves.
"Stashash teaches terror in people's memory"
I can not to be unfair to our people, teaches them When they see the terrible horror, such as the bombing of the city of Hama, when they see thousands have died and thousands filling the jails, or missing when they see the neighborhood Masharqa in Aleppo or Idleb. Actually, there are many places where massacres occurred, or destroy the very prison that wiped out the 682 people within two hours. Teaches these horror is Stashash I believe in people's memory and thus becomes the move is not easy. In addition, the Syrian regime passenger story of nationalism and the question of Palestine.
I, I believe that the Syrian regime is the most talented from the dealer the national question and the question of Palestine through the decades, at the time that "we know very well that the Golan is safe, and there is no Syrian would dare to come forward and say I want to confront Israel, which occupied the Golan Heights, because the Syrian regime protector of the border, protector from entering Israel, not the protector from entering Israel to Syria, this is, unfortunately, the gaming system on the national feelings and aborted a lot of tensions or willingness to rush or to demonstrate.
But now I find when I think the Syrian people that the revolution took place in Tunisia, Ben Ali ousted and, in Egypt and toppled Mubarak. Now Libya, Yemen and Bahrain, this situation was able to ship our people to say we also like other peoples, are no less in spite of the oppression of here and there can possibly be much larger, perhaps on the Libyan-style or the style of Yemen.
"I felt a desire to cry with joy"
But people do not hide that I moved in a moment of moments I felt like wanting to cry, sadness, joy, and worried. The Syrian people, despite all that has happened to him, despite all the massacres that took place unable to move. There seems to be a generation can not not reform movement and the movement of genetic to wash his mind and values of youth and spirit. It seems that the prosecution of the most powerful mental and moral possibilities of brainwashing by the Pioneers, the youth and the Baath and the ideological and military-oriented media. I feel joy to a large extent, this is our people that you imagine and write about it and wrote about it I saw the pictures I saw Dara, Dara is now the mother of cities and I hope that the Syrian-backed sisters and Tnasrha.
Syrian people are not historically less of the Tunisian people or the Iraqi people and the Yemen or Libya and deserves access to their rights and at the same time created a generation mobiles and satellite channels and the Internet, and brainwashed more difficult than the stage at which we lived, we previously, because it is familiar with everything that is happening in the world. Even when the system obscure sites on the Internet, this young generation is able to break this block and therefore continue with Egypt and Tunisia with a lot of things all over the world through these new technologies.
Do you think that the writer, a poet can contribute to the support of the people's demands for freedom and democracy, and how?
I, who never say no, even words like the word as a weapon or effective rifle, no, not effective rifle. Author writes first, because there is something paid to write, there is something he wants to pour from within.
Author should be the conscience alive to the concerns of his people, but this is not a conscience in order to lead his people, and not to be a weapon. Mission to express these dreams and these feelings and express the suffering of the people, have to seek them and this establishes the case of attribution or a situation like the background or the case of land, which can reinforce the noblest values and establish the highest artistic taste. I, I believe that the role of literature is to reflect the past of the people and the dreams and aspirations and their future, which leads the people in the end are the specific objectives, and specific programs, and this job and not take a political book.
What is the most important thing now in the lives of Faraj Bayraqdar?
Dream glow is that I found out that we were not misled when we tell our people for freedom and the paper and progress of our society. Now I see it achieved in Tunisia is achieved in Egypt and the deliberate pace and constant. Now this dream for me began to see him in Syria, I feel that I no longer have any big dreams, except this dream: I want to taste our true freedom is no freedom slogans, the freedom that it deserves, and denied them for decades. If this is achieved, I think there is any other big dreams.
