Symbols of Innocence and Victims of Savage Brutality
A boy was born in the 15th century just a few kilometers from Mariam Dengelat. He grew up and founded a movement, the Dekike Estifanos movement. A coward king, scared by the ideas, unleashed horror on the followers.
The king had the Dekike Estifanos flogged, thrown down ravines, their hairs torn out, their faces and bodies lacerated with knives, speared, dragged on the ground until their skins peeled off, tortured by fire, their tongues pulled out, their ears and nose cut,
their eyes gouged and hot rods inserted in the sockets, their limbs chopped off, beheaded, their corpses dismembered and burnt, and so forth.
More than 500 years later, we remember the Dekike Estifanos as symbols of courage, principle, steadfastness, commitment, knowledge and thought. We don't remember the barbaric savages that massacred them.
Likewise, more than 500 years later from now and longer, the martyrs of Mariam Dengelat will be in public memory. They will be symbols of innocence and victims of savage brutality, reminding generations how precious peace and human life is.
They will be memorialized in books, songs, paintings and in our folklore. None of the cowards and savages who massacred them will be remembered, and if they will be, not in a good way.
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