Fast Friends for Abeer Qassim Hamza

ilyana

Testimonies are emerging in the case of the rape and murder of Abeer Qassim Hamza and the murder of her parents and sister. In memory of the innocence destroyed that day and to raise awareness of the her younger brothers who found the family, I am calling for Fast Friends to join me in a fast and vigil on Saturday August 19. That day would have marked Abeer's 15th birthday. *Please join me in spirit and in fact, and encourage others to do so too. I posted a signed up diary on Daily KOS for those would like to make a public declaration regarding this, and all atrocities commited against innocence.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/7/27/174717/453


Along with an open letter to George W. Bush, Richard Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld...

President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney and Secretary Donald Rumsfeld,
Under your administration our country embarked on a pre-emptive war on the sovereign nation of Iraq. In the course of any war, people lose track of their common humanity. Young people are raised in our culture to follow certain widely respected rules of conduct. Be nice; do not run with scissors; share your toys; don't fight, bite, or pull hair; don't steal, lie or kill; listen to your elders; do your homework and chores; take care of your brothers and sisters. When enlisted as soldiers, these young are suddeningly required to open doors to predatory parts of their psyches that were once shut, bolted and sealed.

* ilyana's diary :: :: *

Do you know the story of Pandoras' box?. Pandora was a lovely young woman in Greek mythology, who was present when a messenger from the god Jupiter delivered a finely carved, dark wood box, tied shut with a golden cord. She was curious about it's contents and proud of her skill at untieing knots. Disregarding the calls from her husband to come join him outside at a neighborhood party, she worked the knot loose and opened the box. Out poured pestilence, disease and pain into a place that had been as perfect as the one described in the Judo/Christian Bible as Eden. According to the story, people had never known those horrors until Pandora opened the box.

The contents of Pandora's box once opened, could not be contained.

The golden cord of early conditioning once untied, becomes twisted into a garotte with which to kill or be killed. When conditioning from human socialization no longer serves to contain baser human instincts, what is there to prevent impulsive distructive behavior?

International laws were enacted to loosely chain Pandora's box so that it can not open wide. So that the atrocities of war would be restricted. Since the horrors of World Wars I & II, the Geneva conventions and other humanitarian laws codified the only legimate excuses for acts of war as being self defense, or the defense of an ally who has been attacked within their own borders from an outside enemy.

Your administration's policies have disregarded International law and our own Constitution, adding to the confusion created in our young people on the front lines. Our pre-emptive attacks on Iraq constituted illegitimate acts of war. If our commander in chief disregards the rules of war, what constrains those who are commanded by him?

Some people do not govern themselves at war, especially when their leaders disregard law and order. Cases of absolute moral depravity are happening in Iraq Such is the case of the rape and death of Abeer Qassim Hamza, who would have been 15 this up coming August 19th. Our soldiers murdered her parents and seven year old sister (first estimated to be five years old), perhaps to eliminate witnesses and resistance to the subsequent rape and murder of Abeer. Their bodies were found by her two little brothers and neighbors.

continua / continued