Political asylum

The mail carrier brought me a registered letter, strange and thick. I looked at the stamps and found that it came from Iraq and the sender's name is K. A. It is probably from Kazem Aslan. I opened the letter and found it written in small, elegant letters on nine double-sided sheets. The letter was confused in its ideas and there was a repetition and a contradiction, in which Aslan moved from subject to subject.

In one paragraph, he talked about political asylum and gave me the following advice, "If you are in politics, beware of political asylum. Be imprisoned in your country and tortured better than the hell of asylum, because you will become a spy for free. Your host asks you about the people closest to you and asks you for specific information on the pretext of serving principles. The truth is that you defend the interests of the intelligence service in the country of asylum and you will be used to writing regular reports for them to provide you with food and shelter. Internationalism remains a distant dream and each regime seeks its own advantage. If you have to leave your country, you have to work and eat by the sweat of your brow; there is no one to give you a salary for the love of God. I lived in asylum in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and I know what I am talking about”.

However, he defended the Soviet Union and the communist states in another paragraph, "The Soviet Union and the communist states resisted injustice and they helped the colonized states in their struggle for independence. The colonized countries should not forget that, unfortunately, the countries that called themselves the free world were their colonizers". 

Abdellah Khammar

The second trimester: Second part

An extract taken from the novel: Entry bell to class