Diary
(2) People see us as inferior to them! Ahmed Seif Hashed
My memoirs.. from the details of my life
(2)
People see us as inferior to them!
Ahmed Seif Hashed
My father was a worker.. a refuting of leather.. It is a profession despised by some as an extension of leather tanning.. a profession despised by those who are possessed by emptiness and “goat” and who live on robbery, plunder, and corruption in the land, and are unable to understand that work as long as it is legitimate It is a great honor; Because its owner eats from his toil and from the sweat of his forehead.
My father used to work in the Al-Bas Company in Aden, refuting leather, which is the craft to which he gave the most important part of the flower of his life and the primer of his youth.. Working in dismantling leather has health damages, but it seems that my father, when he joined this company, preferred the opportunity to work on unemployment, And implement the proverb that says “the dust of work, not the saffron of unemployment.”
Because of the salt, leather, and the chemicals used, my father developed shortness of breath and a night cough, which accompanied him until the last days of his life.
During more than fifty years of my life, I did not know that there are population groups or societal groups in Yemen that despise the profession of leather tanning, and its workers, and look down on them!.. There are population groups, tribal and nomadic environments, which you see us without until much later in my life.
My father started his career as a worker in “leather scraping”, and he belongs to the working class, or say you want to families with limited income, and this profession is in a way related and an extension of the tanning profession.
In the socialist era in southern Yemen, I found legal protection and punitive texts for those who insult, despise, or offend a citizen because of his professional affiliation, or even the low class with the intent of contempt and abuse. Or a severe provocation and humiliation of a person, which would cause him a severe and direct psychological agitation, and the person to whom this abuse was directed committed a crime of murder, so the killer is not led by it.
In this regard, the explanations of the Penal Code issued in 1976 return the reason to the fact that the act of murder was committed by the offender at a moment of intense psychological agitation as a result of extreme abuse, and in a way that removed the perpetrator from his natural state, and from his awareness of appreciating his actions, under the influence of that agitation caused by the victim The law has restricted the maximum prison sentence to no more than five years.
The culture and awareness prevailing in the south at the time, was ideologically biased in favor of the poor classes, or what he called the working and peasant classes, the artisans, fishermen and others, or those he considered in general as “the real stakeholders in the revolution”, but this awareness reached the limit Which made us cherish this affiliation, and venerate our poverty with pride, and we have never felt any detraction because of our profession, or our low social level.
More than this, there were economic measures, remarkable interest and enthusiasm, being exerted by the authorities towards the marginalized segment, and work to raise their economic, educational, and social level. Many successive attempts were made; To reintegrate them into society, especially during the era of President Salem Rabie Ali, known as “Salmeen”.
It was one of the captivating and captivating chants at that time, which I heard from the marginalized during my preparatory studies in Tur al-Baha in the seventies of the last century:
“O Salimin, come forward ** O Salimin, we are not servants
O salimin we are the cleaners ** O salimin we do not want to harm”
It was forbidden to describe any cleaner as a servant as it was.
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Some of the details of my life.
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