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Geschreven door Seyfi Cengiz
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Vrijdag 10 Maart 2006 15:50 |
The dam construction over River Munzur is in progress under tight security. Munzur, which is our life-blood, is being barricated.
A legal initiative to stop the construction has turned down by the Turkish Suprim Court. There has also been a series of peacful protests across Dersim. Thousands of people took streets chanting "Let the river run (flow)".
Fighting is not yet died down. Anger is growing stronger.
Turkey has so far ignored this oppsition to the project. This is still the case.
Her insistance on the project seems to be a decleration of another war against Dersim. She is interested not so much prooducing energy, but destroying the country and dispersing its people. By building eight dams over River Munzur means to employ different methods beside military force to this end. The real aim is to evict the innermost part and hart of Dersim which has always been the stronghold of the national resistance up until now.
In short not only the River Munzur but Dersim as a whole is under threat.
The River Munzur is sacred in our country's religion. Some holiest sites of the land are on or along this river. The religious life of the country is already disrapted by the construction work.
If not abondoned, people might lose faith in peacfull means and the anger could well turn into a bitter struggle including perhaps a guerilla warfare, though no one would normally prefer it. One thing is certain. We shall defend our homeland. People of Dersim do not let the occupiers get on with this project for long. It is a national issue and the struggle to save the river would be a part of the struggle for national freedom.
Let me tell you how the River Munzur emerged in our country before I finish. This is the legend:
"Once upon a time in Dersim there was a king called Cem?it. Munzur was his sheperd. One day this king went away with his army to fight wars. When on front he wished some ?helva' to eat. Munzur knew what his master wished for. He told this to his master's wife and asked her to make the ?helva' to take to his master. She thought it is Munzur himself who wishes some and did what he asked for. He took the helva and disappeared. Coming back a few minutes later he said to her that the plate would be brought back by his master.
This is what happened afterwards:
People went to welcome and kiss his hands when King Cem?it came back. He told them about what happened and showed them the plate. Then asked them to kiss Munzur's hands instead. By hearing this Munzur run away. People went after him. As he was running with a cup full of milk in his hands, the milk was pouring down. In each place where the milk dropped a spring was emerging and of which the River Munzur".
Munzur is regarded as a saint and one of the ancestors by Dersimis. That's why he and the river that named after him is also called Father Munzur or Saint Munzur. So, do not touch the Father Munzur.
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