Thursday, February 16, 2012

Letter to a Character in Forgotten Fire

Dear Selim,

       What you are doing is so horrible. Words cannot even describe my feelings towards you. You are a soulless human being full of unwarranted hatred towards innocent victims. Saving one child from living the life of a prisoner is no consolation to the fact that you are the cause of the deaths of so many more.
       You are a living lie. You caused many Armenians to be killed. You are allowing Vahan Kendarian to stay in your stable because you "respected his father." But you cannot possibly have that much respect for him if you allowed him to be killed. Along with this, you cannot be so cruel to the other Armenians simply because they don't have your respect.
       What you did to the little girl, Saranoush, was the act of a demon. No girl should ever have to live through that. Luckily, she didn't have to. She died after only 8 days of going through the torture. Why men find raping a child pleasing, I will never know. I do however know that no one should ever be subjected to that. You should have killed her if rape was the only thing she was used for. Armenians, and all people, are not simply belongings that you can do what you please with. She was forced out of her home, forced to watch  her family be killed, and forced to be raped for seven nights by older men much like the ones that killed her family.
       The fact that you are willing to save one Armenian but kill so many others is beyond comprehension to me. No Armenians ever caused you any harm, yet you are causing so much to them. The children that aren't even capable of hurting you are going through monstrosities that are unimaginable. You may have think that you saved Vahan, but he was forced into loneliness because of you. When he finally had someone that he thought could be a friend, he had to watch her slowly die, not able to provide any help.
       My animosity towards you is so extreme that I cannot even describe it. You are a despicable man, obviously incapable of normal human feelings such as guilt or sadness. I would say that I hope you get what's coming to you and you feel the pain and heartbreak that you caused all those Armenians, but that would make me nearly as bad as you. I only hope that one day you become a human and see the sadness and feel the guilt that was caused by you.

Sincerely,
        Olivia Hampton

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