Banniass and Albaidha, The massacres now are in wholesale
The Assad regime committed two ethnic cleansing massacres, Thursday and Friday, May 2nd & 3rd 2013, in the towns of Banniass and Albaidha. About a thousand were slaughtered and/or burned alive; most of them were children and women.
Banniass and Albaidha
The massacres now are in wholesale
Every day, the massacres in Syria are increasing
Every day, there is a new town that starts wearing black
Yesterday, it was the town of Judaydet Al-Fadel
But today Banniass and Albaidha are mourning
History will register these massacres
With letters of shame
It will say that the children of Syria passed away by
Being slaughtered with knives or burned with flame
It will also say that the whole world stayed neutral
To fulfill to the desire of Israel
And that the “Red Lines” of the world were
All in a valley
And the blood of our children were
In a different valley
But it will also say that
Assad and his “Shabihas” oppressed the homeland
They killed both; the people and the monuments
They served all the invaders and the enemies
And accomplished for them all what they wished
Their history is nothing to be proud of
It is full of treason and hatred
Their shameful stories were narrated generation after generation
By fathers and grandfathers
But, while the massacres they committed are
The stories of the present and the past,
The epic-way they end will be
The story narrated by grandsons to come
They know that all the people today are
Watching them closely
With every knife they plunged into a child’s neck,
They also prepare the guillotine that will execute them
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A Poem translation
Tarif Youssef-Agha
An Expatriate Arab Syrian Writer & Poet
Member of the ‘Syrian Revolutionary Writers Assembly’
Two days after the Assad’s regime committed the massacres of and Banniass and Albaidha, and the day it received a military slap in the mount of Kassion from his Israeli master.
Sunday May 5, 2013
Houston, Texas