sardasht osman last moments of his life 1

Stop killing journalist in Kurdistan

In broad daylight in Erbil city, Kurdistan region of Iraq, abducting, disappearing, and murdering the very young journalist, Sardasht Osman, 23 years old, a final-year student at University of Salaheddin, On May 4, 2010 by a group of armed men…must had been politically motivated and had been contracted to silence his writing… his desires, wishes, dreams, and hops of young writer. He was and outspoken among the few Kurdish Journalists who dared to write articles revealing corruption and power abuse

He knew, risking his life for expressing, writhing, and speaking the simple truth is worth it. He knew they would gun him down. He knew, he was standing in the midst of a civil war ruthlessly prosecuted by protagonists of whose bloodlust knows no bounds. He sacrificed himself to teach us simple lesson writing and advocating for your cause is the call of conscience, but not reflecting the desire of the others.

Sardasht Osman was a very brave man, braver than anyone else during all my own lifetime. He might have thought that he is doing it because he has nothing to lose…That’s not right young man, you may didn’t lose anything, But when I heard your story, I felt I lost another Rambo or Pablo Neruda, in my on lifetime.

Terror, whether perpetrated by terrorists or the state, has become the order of the day. Indeed, murder has become the primary tool whereby the state seeks to control the organs of liberty. Today it is the journalists; tomorrow it will be the judges. For neither group have the risks ever been higher or the stakes lower.

Sardash Osman was really young. Beside his hope, dream, and future, he knew better than all of us as a journalist, he had responsibilities and obligation that has to go beyond his limit.