Behind the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria are tragic human tragedies, as the graves appear with numbered evidence that hides pain and suffering behind them, but it is more painful to see a grave written on it: "An unknown child, wearing a green sweater."
The details of this tragic story go back to the city of Jenderes, as the Syrian Civil Defense, which undertook the rescue and burial work, explained that what was written over the child’s grave is due to the fact that a number of victims took their bodies from the people and buried them directly quickly and randomly without documentation, which is the least case. The Civil Defense assisted their relatives by burying them after identifying them.
As for those who remained, whose identities were not known, despite their bodies being placed in the hospital to identify them, the Civil Defense documented them by photographing them and writing their descriptions and all information useful in identifying their identities later, and then burying them.
It is noteworthy that the city of Jenderes in the Afrin region in the western countryside of Aleppo, where the grave of this little girl is located, died as a result of the earthquake, about 1,100 people, which is the largest number among the victims of the earthquake-stricken cities in northwestern Syria.
In Jenderes, 278 homes were completely destroyed, and more than a thousand homes were cracked or partially damaged.
How did the pioneers interact with the story?
And the “Shababat” program (2/3/2023) followed the interaction of the pioneers of the communication platforms with the story of the Syrian girl with the green sweater and her small grave in Jenderes, where the activist Abdullah Fattouh expressed his grief, saying: “Is there more pain left than this, Green Sweater? A stranger in life and in death.
Tweeter Ahmed had the same opinion, when he saw that Syrians live and die in exile, and he said, "The country of oppression is my homeland and death is beyond my sufficiency! Oh, you green sweater, as if you sealed for us the story of a people who were alienated even in their graves."
As for the activist Al-Khwarizmi, he had another opinion on the way the child's grave was documented, and wrote, "It would have been better to take a picture of the child and put it on the tombstone for ease of identification in the future, if someone appeared asking about the same characteristics as her."
And the activist Abdullah agreed with him, who commented, "Before burial, the photos should be photographed and kept in the security services or hospitals, so that they can be easily identified when searching for them."
In turn, the activist Samah expressed the extent of the cruelty of the image, and said, "Oh God, how painful is this image... This is the harshest tombstone we can see... in the gardens of bliss, O green sweater."