A forum had taken place at the center of the Charitable Circassian Association (Circassian Khasa), in Amman / Jordan, on 20 May 2009, entitled: "The Circassian Question, Present and Future" at this year's commemoration of the one hundred and forty-five years of the war's the end of the Russian / Caucasian War on 21, May, 1864. 
Forum was conducted by Mr. Mohamed Shuaib Hmzouk, attended by Mr. Adel Bashqawi, who presented his presentation entitled: "The future Question, the Circassian Activities Between the North Caucasus and Diaspora",  as well as Mr. Mohammed  Daghistani, who made his participation entitled: "The Circassian Question From The Perspective of Rights And International Laws." 
  
The activities of next day, 21 May 2009, are to commemorate the Day of Mourning, which will include the speech the President of the Association (Khasa) and then the performance of the deportation songs performed by: Barena Abaza, Amira Ktao and Aslavik, and music by Blan Jallouqa. 
After that, a special part of the Mourning Day: (Pains and Hopes), the text: Atef Haj-Tas Yehkul and Nart Qakhun, and Mourning songs by Ivan Bakij, and Commemoration introducer will be Nart Qakhun.

The Supervising Committee in charge of activities of the Day of Mourning has distributed the Program of Activities, which was entitled "Day of Mourning 21-5, the Tragedy of the Past and the Hopes for the Future  ..." 
The text of the program, which was distributed, shows the following:  
  
21/5/1864, the declaration of the end of the war in the Caucasus, so, thereby, the war of the genocide and destruction had ended, leaving more than a million martyrs, and the deportation of  about one million and four-hundred thousand human-beings from their homeland, the Caucasus. 
War of murder and death had ended in Homeland, for the journey of death to begin by departing Homeland, Circassians had closed a chapter of the tragedy chapters, for the tragedy, to open them new chapter, but new chapters. 
We commemorate the anniversary of the memory of Mourning to make the memory, a torch for us that lights the darkness of the coming era, weep over the soil and wipe off the tears with hope. 

We commemorate the Day of Mourning to learn from the pitfalls of the past, we were a victim of the interests of the previous states, but will be not be a victim today or a tool in the hands of today’s States. 
Let us take a lesson from our wounds, and heal our grief with our own hands; live nations make their own destiny by itself, and do not throw its presence and future in the blowing winds of lusts and the interests of others. 
  
On the fourth page of the program the following was mentioned: 

From an inner extending wound, we wrote for pain its rhyme 
and made the opera weep
and from the pain revolutionized inside us
we sculptured the language of grief...
  
And on the rhythm of static moan inside us, we sang to the future hope
and we recited the rhythm of homelands 
and on the face of the days we wrote: 
  
The winter's night is long, but after darkness April appears
The summer comes, accompanied by the sun
Ripping the cover of darkness 
And raises the sword of light 
In the face of darkness and tyranny.

 

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21, May, 2009

 

Translated by: Justice For North Caucasus group

 

Source: Circassia News