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| Mohammed Katta, the 14 year old boy who was killed brutally by extremists. Photo by: NYT website |
Mohammed Katta who was a drummer boy in Syrian revolution's early protest marches was working at his family coffee shop in the Shaar district of the largest city Aleppo of Syria when he made a serious mistake. Worried by a customer to hand over a coffee on promise of payment, he shouted pleasantly: "I wouldn't give the Prophet Mohammed credit if he came here today." He was overheard by two men on the opposite corner table of the shop. Within few minutes marching over, they took him away in a car, refusing his disagreements of his love for the Prophet and the objections of a militiaman from the Free Syrian Army nearby. Half an hour later, they returned. With a bag placed over his head Mohammed was staggering and fell to his knees, and been beaten worsely.
"I saw my son, and saw him dead, and saw a fountain of blood coming out of him. I too said nothing. I was mute" Mohamed's father Abdulwahab Katta spoke to some global media's with tears. Mohamed's mother Nadia Umm Fuad who saw her child dieing infront of her described the deadly scene to some international media's journalists with grief. "I was upstairs at home when I first heard the shouting. The people of the neighbourhood were yelling that they have brought back the kid, so I rushed out of my apartment. I went out on my balcony.I said to his father, they are going to shoot your son! Come! Come! Come! I was on the stairs when I heard the first shot. I was at the door when I heard the second shot. I saw the third shot. I was shouting, 'That's haram, forbidden! Stop! Stop! You are killing a child.' But they just gave me a dirty look and got into their car. As they went, they drove over my son's arm, as he lay there dying " said Nadia Umm Fuad who was the mother who witnessed the execution of her 14 year old boy. According to the dead boy's mother it was the foreign fighters who killed Mohammed. Nadia said that killer's of her son spoke classical Arabic rather than the local dialect. Mohammed's brutal death has prompted prompted international. condemnation. Jabhat al-Nusra, the local affiliate of al-Qaeda, has issued a statement condemning the death and denying responsibility. The western backed Revolutionary Military Council's director Abu Ammar, said that the council is investigating Mohammed's killing. But until now the council is unable to grab the people who was to responsible for the inhuman killing.
Many people now comes to believe that Mohammed's killing confirms that a wild militant extremists has entered the Syrian civil war conflict. From the moment he was taken away to the moment he was killed, Mohamed was not given the right to say nothing. Mohammed never had that opportunity which says that the law forbade vigilante justice for all those accused must be brought before a court and allowed to speak in behalf of him. This young boy has become a symbol of the fears many Syrians have for the future of their country where extremists and reformists are combatting with the regime for the control of the parent goverment.
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