This is a translation from radikal http://www.radikal.com.tr/haber.php?haberno=247093
Since, it seems to be the 'hot' topic of the day, I thought it was a good idea
ps. any corrections are welcome!!
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We have our trial today.
They shot our brothers. They shot infront of our eyes.
They got him killed with the boys whom did not have lives. If he could have looked at them in the eyes, if he could have hugged them with his unique existance. he could have saved them.
Hrant could have saved his killers.
But persons who got him killed; who caught those boys from the most hungry sides and sent to kill him, knew this. I think, they knew this most.
They knew the power of Hrant.
Hrant was not taking his power from the things what those persons knew; the persons, who wanted him dead, who showed him with as target with their salivating tongues.
He did not have money. He did not have any servants.
He never had small calculations in his mind. He did not have happy relations with powerful people.
He did not have a chair, a coat, a quarter or a title.
He did take his power from his childhood spent in orphanage.
from being an ermenian.
from not having a shield.
from being easily hurt
from his shining belief to people
from his unlimited and unconditional love of people.
from his fearless love affairs with the world.
from his pure courage like a child
from his shoes with holes.
We saw one thing which was not seen by his killers, at the day he was shot. We saw what we did not know that until that day. We did not know how many people's heart Hrant touched, and people would fill the squares by roaring like avalanche as soon as they learnt his dead.
Hrant gave an extraordinary hope to his admirers with his dead.
Hundred of thousands of people who chanted " we all are ermenians", knew that the bullet was shot at Hrant, touched them as well. We stopped the world with our pain and rebellion without thinking of how dangerous to be to go to the squares with saying 'we are ermenians' in this soil. We looked at each other with disbelief. We stood together with this immense pride which we never felt before.
A year passed. By saying that 'We are all ermenians', we showed to our brothers that we will protect them, if necessary we would shield our existence for them. Some who had some profits from his dead condemned us. They did not want to see our problem.
Now, we are all gathered in this sheltered place which justice does not work.
This is our country.
If we are going to call this place our country, we have to own how the justice work.
They are half hearted. The people occupying the heads of justice think justice is just covering up. Shading , denying the truth. We, who will never forget Hrant, have to lay claim to justice.
We will be in the court today where Hrant's killer are tried.
Because we are a side in this trial.
Fahriye Cetin who is the lawyer of dink family and the writer or 'my grandmother', is telling us why we have to be there. : " this trial is related to all of us in reality. This trial for everybody for all individuals, it is not only for minorities, journalists, intellects, or people who happens to be somewhere. it is for all of us. So far, there had been many trials for political killings. Abdi Ipekci, Ugur Mumcu, Taner Kislali and many got killed. They are all unresolved. But we all knew that the killers were somewhere and we could not see much. For the first time we have something in our hands. This trial showed us, some mobs which nested in the state, became visible. International media, Hrant's friends, his journalist and lawyer connections managed to make something visible.
That is the reason some people, who were thought unstoppable, are in jail. This trial made it possible. This is going to be a very important starting point for the justice. This trial is necessary for all of us to rescue the justice from the people who has the force and the violence. We have to feel our inside the trust to justice when we sit in our homes and at our work. This trial is necessary for this"
The people who did everything to show Hrant as a target to world of Turkishness, deep nationalists Veli Küçük, Sevgi Erenerol, Kemal Kerinçsiz ve Oktay Yıldırım are in jail from ergenekon (I think KeithL gave a link previously regarding ergenekon). It means their job is terminated. After the guessable negotiates in the various levels in the state, these notorious national characters' rope has been pulled. We have to be more persistent to get the rest , the whole evidence and the denied links. from Alperens to police, from assistant major who got Hrant threatened in his room to gendarme, we are not going to leave this until we get all the actors of this organization which is behind this death.
Just to name this new beginning as Hrant, whom they were afraid a lot.
We could not save him..We let him snatched by the savages. As his life helped all of our lives more valuable, let his death solve our lives long , bloody and so obvious mystery.
We be there for the name of Hrant.
For the name of life. Today
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