About
Osam Altaee…
Part
1
I'm
an Iraqi. I was born in the south of
Iraq in a small town called ‘Al Khodor’
which is nearly
250 kilometers south of Baghdad in the
Almothana province.
When
I was ten years old, I met an old
Kurdish woman from Kurdistan, where
people were fighting against the Iraqi
regime for freedom and democracy. This
old woman told me the stories of how our
army murdered all the men gender of her
family and destroyed her village. This
fact built in my heart a blind haters
for the army.
And when I was thirteen years old, my
father did not join the party al-ba'ath.
To punish him, someone of the
aforementioned party submitted a false
report against him in which, he accused
my father of dealing into politics
against the Iraqi regime, which was a
forbidden issue. Subsequently, my father
has been jailed for four years in Abu Ghraib prison.
These
were the two main reasons that drove me
to hate the Iraqi regime and to believe
so deeply in long lasting peace and
endeavor to handle problems in a good
manner. I became against the policies of
Saddam, which aim to use the force and
arms against the Kurdish and Iran; I had
lot of troubles. They pursued me
to the college and hindered me from
pursuing my studies. Then I was obliged
to join the army during the war between
Iraq and Iran. Since the war was
originally against my believes, I
decided to react. I did in no way want
to join the army. I choose to physically
harm my body. Desperately, I have
decided to cut my left foot and
arrange it to look like as I had an
accident. I used two thinks to
accomplish the mission: A fuse of a hand
grenade and a motorbike. At night I
attached the fuse to my foot when riding
the motorbike and enlightened the fuse,
when it exploded, I capsized the motor
and opened the tank of petrol to put
some on my foot and fire started on it
and the motor. I was sure my plan looks
like an accident because the fire will
hide the traces of the explosive powder.
I was then taken to a hospital; the
doctor discovered the traces of the
explosion and did a report indicating
that what happened was not an accident
but a premeditated act, which will cost
me a military trial. I had deserted the
army after one year when I finished my
treatment.
After
years of living in fear and terror (the
details in my ebook THE
TRUTH WARRIOR), I found I could not
continue to live under the tyrannical
rule of Saddam and fled to Lebanon
seeking refugee status. I thought I
would find a community of people there
that provided protection and support for
people in need. What I
found, instead, was the UNHCR [THE
UNITED NATIONS [UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR
REFUGEES]. With
my sorrow and with pain I speak that
UNHCR failed to meet any of my needs
even the simplest need, that to find
honest person ready to listen to my
fears and worries! Honestly that was far
away from UNHCR.
They
didn’t refuse to help me, but because
I spoke my opinions about what I saw, I
was persecuted. My attempts to tell the
outside community about the conditions
we were forced to live in by using the
Internet and expose what they had been
hiding for years, made them to declare
war against me! I called that war:
“War of truth”. They didn't like
that I break the walls and all the
barriers to reach the people everywhere
in the world. They didn't like spreading
my voice as a refugee in the world by
using the Internet and to show you what
they hided for years. I was the first
refugee in the world who used the
Internet as weapon not just a way to
communicate with people!!! I soon
discovered that Saddam is just a part of
the despotic system that exists
everywhere in the world.
Saddam would be unable to
continue his sadistic policies without
help from those who benefit from them.
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