Syria Feature: Seeking Justice Against the "Banality of Evil" (Host Site: Walls)
Monday, September 10, 2012 at 9:14"Memories at the Checkpoint" by Tamer al-Awam, killed on Saturday in Aleppo
The battle with this regime is not about me, it is not about you, it is about humanity. My dear friends, I can now tell you why it has been very hard to write. Over the past few months, my closeness to some of the young and brilliant people of Syria has enriched my life, but it has also made the tragedy, and the mess closer than ever.
I will not forget, nor will I forgive. I will not seek revenge, but rest assured, I will seek justice. And defending this regime, even covertly, makes one part and parcel in the murder of the friends I have lost. My cursing the regime and its supporters is only an impotent response, but I, with the help of countless Syrians, lack no potency in following them through this planet and in making them pay by all legal means for their collusion with this abomination called Assad and for their disgustingly inhumane efforts to cover the stench with slogans of resistance and nationalism. They will pay for the murder of my city, and all other cities in my Syria, for killing my friends and for making my mother, brave as she is, cry.