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De la Syrie à la France: un combattant, un étudiant | Haytham Al Aswad | TEDxSciencesPoCampusMenton


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lambert is a regime opponent

Syrian but less I was not

agree with him I mean even

after closing the chess club in

to rats in my city and my sin

to continue my passion I loved when

even the Syrian regime

even though I hated coming early to

school in the morning since I’m

very small we will rank and

repeated the party repeated the slogan

single party

albas in syria ouattara who has in the

cold in addition to my games but when

even

the Syrian regime even though I also

hated this matter that’s called

civic studies in syria and which consists of

to memorize the vises

brought by the ruling family the

series since we really are everything

small but still I like this

family but that’s because they

were sending buses to school for

will have led to protests for

we shout we sing but everything

we want good all we want is

is rather we love you our dear

president at the moment

i was 10 years old i was born in dera ma

hometown as well as the hometown

of the Syrian revolution and I would like

tell you about some events that

I lived that I saw with my own

eyes and not through the TV the

kids do you know that everything

tilting in Syria is caused by

children yes yes children of the age of

10 to 14 years old children of dera

it was in February 2011 that

children writing on the wall of their school

it is the turn of children who are

watched TV with their parents

who saw what was happening in egypt

and in tunisia

you know the kids they like

imitate bequeathing us and punishing them

was to stop them by the fonts

and the es2 have them prisoners and

torture them and that a judy torture and

got off their angle that’s the

electrified

the parents of these children went

see the chief of the police they were asking

their child is the answer of the head of

fonts had been clear and net and I

the transmets my siding forget your

children and was going to make more

and if you do not know how to bring it

your women and we will do it for you

here is sir lady the direct reason

cumulated with many other reasons

in the past why the inhabitants of

berra manifested themselves on March 18

2011 triggering the revolution

Syrian

that day March 18 , 2011 it was a

Friday

it was the serial weekend it’s the

weekend is so I made my fat

morning I woke up I was

doing my homework and

I hear helicopters by the

window

it’s abnormal I look they’re all

near I run to the sea I you

ask what’s going on and tell me

that your father has just left for a

manifestation that takes place in in a

place called their husband zakat so

we go down to my grandmother’s house

TV but nothing on the news in

a wait time and then my cousin

come back from the demonstration he’s us

explains that the protesters asked

the release of his children but also

release of prisoners

policies and the fall of the mayor of

berat the answer was the voters

that I saw in interests in the stadium

dar gendarmes dressed in black

who are apparently specialized for

this kind of situation have come down have

ran kilometers to the place of

the manifestation is the first thing

what they do is open fire on

first day two dead fell and

four wounded I know two dead

it’s not a shocking number today

but believe me this time it’s a

very very shocking number for

rats it was actually a lot a lot

more than a number, they were children

who lost their father children who

spent all night crying

it was

women who have lost their husbands and

why the next day everyone

wanted to show up against this

violence but everyone was afraid of being

the only one because of this violence

finally the protesters were ten

many times and more there was blood

just people were numerous in

the streets forty days later will vera

was besieged by the army series

the armed of our country

we had more milk more bread and

why because we did not show

peacefully the inhabitants of the

villages surrounding rats decided

to bring bread milk to walk

kilometers to the rats

walk to rats and

while wearing olive branches

to report that their actions and

peaceful

on arrival the army very kind the

centers and protesters once

that they are at the center of the army

open fire I can really say

that this is the worst day of my life

people were running people were falling around

of us and then people were walking on

these people who grabs lands that are in

dying

I mean I can not really

describe the scene with me

besides the nearest neighborhood of

this place was the majority neighborhood

Christian to rats and the

Christians have opened their doors very

great for the wounded and besides

I know a woman friend of my mother

who is today in paris who

lived that day in this neighborhood and

who welcomed wounded

the day after that horrible day I am

passed by this street and all I

see it was the shoes of these

people who were trying to flee

it was all mixed milk of milk

with blood but you know what is

maybe worse than dying of this

way it’s from my cousin

hamza be in a small prison see

people victory slowly die and

hear the screams of other people while

knowing that you are next my cousin

hamza was a law student at

damascus at the damas faculty he did

never worn lady never knew the

one day the pulleys ska the door of

Sheikh Hamza and take him under the

his mother’s eyes

in short the method of torture was to

hang it while leaving the

ends of his feet touched a

chair he was naked and electrified

in all parts of his body

here is a reason why

hamza is now a refugee

luckily he could resist and

unfortunately unlike

many other people who were with

him and that’s why he became a

refugee

as for me several several reasons

also in fact that I became a

refugee that I left my country whose

one of them is that day

when I was with my mother my big

mother my aunt and my little brother in

the car a police period we

stop take the cards

to verify them

the usual then come back and take

my mother

we were shocked we did not know what

do I I turned to my

little brother who was 10 years old at

the time it was all silence there was

tears flowed from her eyes but was

tempted my grandmother tries to us

calm down but also starts to

crying they left with my mother on

followed them with the car for

a few hundred meters he has they

have entered the stage of dar saad will see

where we heard that they were performing

people

really the only thought I had

in the head or the only question

was my mother alive

at that moment am I going to

see again I did not want to believe that this

of course but at times I

only imagined the opposite

Fortunately, he just asked him

questions about my father because my

father was activists from the first

day he was talking to the chains

to tell what is happening

passed on to transmit reports

the picture because the Syrian regime

forbade international media

back in the sky and my mother went out

and after several threats after

my father left the series we have

decided and we were obliged to

leave the series

I remember that day I was at

comfortable home with my grandparents

not to say goodbye to all the

world actually I learned the same day

that night I will leave my country

I’m coming and I’m going to forget my perfume

at home I ask my mother to

to go to my house before going to

the border to look for my perfume

and the matante makes fun of me and tells me

you go to paris you will lead a perfume

with you but considering the prices of perfumes to

paris she owes me a perfume absolutely

a i also remind you how my

friend omar prayed to my mother that I stay

at home it was my friend my best

friend the car arrived i’m

pulled out I advanced to the car and

several advances I’m going that feeling

I realized that in fact tomorrow I

will not be in syria that I would have

not allowed to enter my own

country to see my loved ones my friends

to go to places where I have

grew up I got into the car

I was a last look at my

grandmother and her tears touched this

that there is deeper in me my mother

my grandmother I never have them

seen since then and that I will never see her

believe me it was not my choice of

leaving my country it was not my choice

to choose not to return to man in

in series and it was really not my

choice not to see my grandmother anymore

despite all this I went through the

border and we flew to

amman to join my father in paris

you flew with feelings

divided between Syria my loved ones my

friends and the new life that awaits me in

France and my father too

the first two months I have them

spent doing papers so I

was not at school yet I do not

did not speak a word of French

I dream in January 2012 and and I

remind me one day I went to play

at football and I started talking a

girl of my age and I will speak in

English did not understand English well

after a long discussion and he

ask questions so I try to him

explain why I left the

series simply I remember

always from that moment how he has

opened his big eyes he looked at me

and told me yu phase just a shuyi I

do not know when she arrived at

this conclusion

later I heard it’s this

we call a misunderstanding later

I started to learn French

and I must say that I had a lot of

luck because I came to France

and because I came by plane see

the town hall is in amount

it’s very pretty but when I look

far it scares me

I really love France for everything

that she offered me the chance the

protection education and especially

I love the people I met in

la France

those people who have always helped me and who

was always smiling for which

I was haitham and not a migrant

patrick basile and catherine this

family that even we can never

thank enough are part of these people

there I have many people this

family greeted me during the summer

2012 to help me learn the

French but they did a lot

more than even learn french

they made me discover life

French French culture with

I lived moments but

unforgettable

if with them they do not have me what they do not

not only took me the least

optimistic

they made me believe right now it’s

with this family that I discovered

the French cheese milk of which I

do not appreciate the smell it’s with

Basil and his friends I sympathized

for the first time with young people

french of mona and who taught me

a lot of words that I do not have the

right to say the majority of his hands

waste

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really thank you thank you thank you patrick

thank you, catherine, you will always be

the example that I will follow in my life

then I continued my studies I was

in high school first I got my bac and

now I am in the second year

at the university I do

mathematics

i’m doing it with nicolas born at

Park

we created the comic

whose purpose is to talk to you as I

you I speak to you today the same

way I hope that one day we have and

save people who are in the process of

die in syria i hope that when day

I can have the choice to go into

my own country

I hope we can found a country

that we can found an education

I hope the right candidate countries

man act that they intervene and

I especially hope you from this all

those who listen to me

remember if he ever speaks to you if you

please never when you

think of the one solution or whatever

either when you think of Syria the

root of the problem how everything has

started do not forget what I you

told story tell because we have

always tend to forget the root

of the problem how it all started

thank you France for all you have me

offered thanks for everyone

I hope that France opens its doors

even more arms for people have

need education protection like

com – as France was doing in the

passed as does germany

today and especially thank you to you

French for this welcome and for

all those smiles

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