Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
Turkey: Kurdish Children Killed, No Consequences by Uzay Bulut, April 15, 2022 at 5:00 am
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
The killing and wounding of Kurds caused by Turkish security forces in
armored vehicles appear to be a systematic problem in the
majority-Kurdish southeast of Turkey.
Gatestone Institute : On September 11, 2019, a five-year-old Kurdish child, Efe Tektekin,
was killed crossing the street when a Turkish police officer hit him
with his armored vehicle in Diyarbakir.
The officer, after facing trial
for "causing death by negligence," was acquitted following the final hearing of the court case on March 29.
If Tektekin had run out into the road too fast for the policeman to
stop, then there would have been a proper investigation and all evidence
would have been used. But the lawyers have said that the legal system
protects police officers.
Moreover, there have been many other similar
cases of killings by armored vehicles: in none of them is the driver
ever punished. These armored vehicles, are only deployed,
discriminatorily, in Kurdish-majority communities. They endanger public
safety and should not even be driving in the streets.
Human rights lawyers say that impunity for state authorities or public officials who commit crimes against Kurds are systematic in Turkey.
