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A Blessing and Curse Fulfillment

By Séverin Manariyo

Mr. Broom, a tremendously well-off landlord who lived in Bubravo, decided to utter a curse upon one of his children. Bubravo country is located in the Deep Lakes Region. Mr. Broom, the father of three children got married to Pola the most respectful Mum the country had known. The couple was married with three kids: Katia, Aziz, and Hamza. The children were respectively a girl, a boy, and a boy too. Mr. Broom, the most affluent man of the region, is famous for his profitable business of selling drugs and has many vehicles engaged in the transportation of both goods and people. As well, he has uncountable rental houses in Sosha (a great city in Bubravo) and abroad. At the same time, he is the greatest farmer with so many herds of cattle. And that makes him choose to supply public institutions with food such as prisons, boarding schools, universities, and the like. He also caters milk for transformational cooperatives which manufacture milk by-products such as cheese, yoghurt, and butter. His wife works at Bubravo Revenue Authority, an office in charge of gathering taxes for Bubravo public treasure. Although he has unlisted sources of revenue and has amassed uncontrollably doubtful-owned fortunes, he forgets to save as he has no bank account. The family is on living an easy and comfortable life. Broom’s house is a four-story flat. As days went by, Mr. Broom hired a houseboy called Kevin, a black glabrous smart boy from Kaccick. He had also a babysitter called Moriah from the same locality. As Broom and his wife scarcely stayed home, they really did not know what was going on at home in their absence. Broom was very busy purchasing drugs from India in order to run them in Bubravo. His wife Pola, in her turn, had to spend her whole time in the office at the border and did not find occasion to take care of her kids. Then, it is clear that due to those tremendously cruised preoccupations, the latter barely had time to engage in conversation with her children in order to bring them up. Broom frequently comes home at midnight. He always comes very tired and does nothing but sleep whereas Pola is accustomed to coming at 10.00 p.m. which is bedtime in the city. Since this hour is not fit for children to be still awake, parents do not have enough time to look after their children and because of this, Broom’s children were plunged into evil behaviour and were seemingly spoiled. They could be given a sacklike wallet full of money to buy biscuits and chocolates. When it was a shopping day, Katia used to be with the houseboy Kevin while Aziz used to be with Moriah. The shoppers spent much time and money, and none of them wanted to know what the cost for the articles both in time and in finances was. When Katia turned four years old, she went to a kindergarten located at Sanzy for nursery studies. She began elementary school at six and so did her two brothers because it was a custom in Broom’s family for children to start with nursery studies. As the children grew up, they adopted an odd behaviour from their schoolmates, but nobody cared. Katia grew more beautiful to the point that she attracted almost all the boys of her school. It was the same when she arrived home. The houseboy whispered some sweet romantic words to her. Kevin started accustoming her on how to pout one’s lips in order to give or receive kisses. The parallel situation occurred to her two brothers who were likewise handsome. At home, when the house lady Moriah was serving, she took advantage of the absence of the parents and accustomed the boys to play with sex. The children reacted differently before each attempt. Aziz, the most emotional boy with an all-time-smiling and black childish face responded by smiling at Moriah. The latter took him to the bed where she taught him how to perform french kisses. On his part, Hamza seemed to be attracted. He malingered to have understood Moriah’s lesson but refused to go to bed. When Broom’s children began secondary school, they were already too sexually mature for their ages. Despite her maturity, Katia was so sex-minded a girl to remember how actually sexual life works. On Saturday, on the International Children Day’s day-off occasion, the parents had both taken into account the upbringing of their children and had spent the whole day by them. Mr. Broom told them how to behave, among his counsels to his children were: avoid playing with sex, avoid laziness, avoid theft, respect old people, say no to anyone who would ask to sleep with them, and so forth. At the last gasp, he committed himself to reward anyone who would follow his advice and curse anyone who would dare to counteract his counsels. As far as she is concerned, Pola promised to bestow huge blessings to them if they show admirable respect to both parents and other elders. Here are Broom’s words: “Dear beloved children, I take this opportunity (pointing his index to each one) to fulfill my commitment and achieve a good parent’s duty. My children, blessed is the one who will eagerly show incomparable and irreplaceable attachment to my person. The irreproachable welfare towards your mother and me without forgetting respectful respect to neighbours and old people will make you inherit parental blessings. The devil will devour therefore each of you who will obviously oppose my words. I preempt this infliction: an unendurable heavy curse will drop and strike him. It will be fulfilled towards him and he will lift an everlasting damned burden at all, I swear.” However, one afternoon when she came from school, Katia got into Kevin’s bedroom. The latter gave her the chocolate he prepared to fascinate her. He started to touch her and finally slept with her in spite of the recent advice to Katia. As it was the first time she had sexual intercourses, she faced hemorrhagic troubles. She had lost her virginity by having hymen broken. When she was in third Arts, Katia fell in love with Rodriguez. That one was Katia’s deskmate. He is known as a young famous tennis player in Bubravo Cranes Club with a black-bearded face. Rodriguez used to grant gifts to Katia and promised to take her to Mkenzo Beach. The latter is the most favorite beach for foreign affluent tourists and rich vacationers in the whole Bubravo. The last Sunday of Easter vacation, Rodriguez took Katia to Mkenzo and had sex with her. It was the second time she had slept with a boy and as a result, the girl got unexpectedly pregnant. Yet, fearing to become a laughing-stock at school among her classmates, Katia opted to make an abortion. If she continued to go to school, the instructors would notice that there was a pregnant schoolchild and then warn the headmaster to dismiss Katia from school. Therefore, she gave up school and went to Mkkek Hospital based at Mkkiki, the chief town of Bubravo, to commit an abortion. The trip to Mkkiki was too long and was more expensive because that area was twenty kilometres from Katia’s home and neither Katia’s parents nor her brothers knew where she was. Her departure to Mkkek Hospital was to be kept a secret. There was a little hope that Katia was easily going to be extricated from that situation. When she got to the hospital, she told Dr Muhabab about the aim of her visit and Muhabab. The gynecologist took Katia into the ward and started operating on her. The doctor was not experienced and had no expertise in treating female diseases. He was newly employed, selected from medical academic trainees to replace another gynecologist that had recently left. Unfortunately, he caused her internal uterine troubles and Katia died. When Katia’s family got informed about the felony, her parents decided to go and bring the corpse in order to organize funeral rites and obsequies. The situation got worse in Broom’s family during the mourning period. Mr. Broom uttered to the rest of his children this warning: "Katia had just betrayed the family and had died because she counteracted my sayings." Broom and Pola reminded their children of the constituents of a worthy up-bringing. When the mourning was over, the funeral followed on Wednesday, December 24th, 1869. On top of that, the burial rites were preceded by Katia’s memorial mass wherein every participant had to rehearse requiems. Many people were present in that mass. Among them were Broom’s parental relatives. The more the choir members made rehearsal of the requiem, the more the participants burst out crying even though there were some who shed crocodile’s tears. After the requiem mass, the crowd went to the graveyard to bury Katia’s corpse. There, they had to rehearse elegies; they altogether felt anxious, sorrowful and cried up. The same bad event occurred only one month after Katia’s death in Broom’s family. It is said that it never rains but it pours because Aziz himself, Broom’s second born child, impregnated the family’s house girl. Moriah and Aziz concerted to hide the situation. Despite the previous lesson, Aziz forced Moriah to go to Kecc Health Center and abort her pregnancy. There at Kecc, Moriah underwent immediate consequences. When the nurse operated on Moriah, she suffered from hemorrhagic troubles and died. Being acquainted with the bad news, Broom fell frantic. He thought of committing suicide, but the neighbours stayed nearby and condoled him curatively. After Moriah’s burial activities, Broom gathered his family and uttered a curse to Aziz solemnly. Here are the curse’s words upon Aziz: “Damn…damn..! I, Broom, solemnly curse you Aziz. God of heavens, shed on that bizarre guy too many temptations and burdens because he had dared to betray his family. I wish he himself would be betrayed by his offspring”. Thereby, Mr. Broom bestowed blessings to Hamza, his third born child. Broom said: “Excellent son Hamza, you had never violated my counsel, so inherit blessings from God. Keep on fighting for the welfare of both your parents and all people until the old age, keep your excellences.” In the meanwhile, Mr. Broom pursued his deals. He sold drugs from overseas. He was known at trafficking grass drugs like hashish, marijuana, cannabis, and dope. Well, purchasing and selling those hemp rushed income forcibly for Broom’s economy. Despite the fact that his deals were very risky, Broom did not want to give it up. For that reason, on Sunday, July 6, 1892, he was surprised shipping five tons of cannabis by Indian marine police in charge of securing borders. He was crossing the Pacific Ocean from India. He was taken to the police station and jailed there. When the police were carrying out large investigations they got a telephone from Broom’s wife. They finally knew that that eagerly manful deal man was from Bubravo. In such a way, Broom’s five-ton luggage was seized. He ran constraint of paying twenty thousand dollars as a fine in order for the Indian police to release him and transfer him to Bubravo government. The superintendent of Bubravo police made a file for the process. Mr. Broom was sent to Bubravo central prison where he was obliged to present himself to the Sosha national court. Afterward, the court sentenced that Broom had lost the process. He was accused of “spreading out throughout Bubravo stupefying products which drugged and intoxicated Bubravo youth.” Such a felony was punishable with a five-year long imprisonment and a hundred thousand dollar fine. Alternatively, Broom should opt to pay a million dollar fine on behalf of the first punishment. If he did so, he would get released from the five-year imprisonment. As a matter of fact, Pola did not want her husband to dwell in captivity. Consequently, she asked the judges to release Broom and she committed to paying the one million dollar punishment. Broom’s family had ignorantly not saved, they had amassed huge riches with no savings account at the bank. It had been very difficult to Pola to get the million dollars. She was obliged to sell all of the villas they owned and the vehicles engaged in transportations and the herds of cattle they had plus the cash she had at home. Pola herself was accused of having swindled Bubravo national treasure. She was guilty of stealing one hundred thousand dollars, but frankly the money was stolen from her office at her absence. When she came at work Monday morning, she found the padlock of the safe broken and the notes were taken away. The national customs office did not get that it was not her who stole the money. Pola was accused of having stolen fraudulently and consequently was kicked and expelled from the job. As a result, Bubravo national customs office seized all goods belonging to Broom’s family. Broom’s rental houses and vehicles were seized in the aim of earning back the national funds embezzled and swindled. Puzzled and despaired, Pola didn't know how to react to the two infractions in front. She felt immersed in a desolate valley of despair. When one of her children reminded her of her husband by saying where papa is, she got mad. She remembered that she had not paid the five million dollars to the court yet so as to release Mr. Broom. Stripped and deprived of the main part of her wealth, Pola had no other choice except for selling her cattle. She sold her cows and got four million dollars with a shortage of one million for the fine. In addition to the tiny cash she kept at home, she managed to totalize the required amount for the fine. On Tuesday, April 9, 1896, Pola took the money to the director of Bubravo central prison. The court had freed Broom from captivity. Owing to his son Hamza, Broom hewed out of despair and started to keep a little hope. Hamza ran a little business. He sold peanuts after classes and also helped his parents when they quite ran out of money. When Hamza and his grandbrother Aziz finished secondary school, they were to pursue the studies and graduate from academic studies. Unluckily, their parents were not still capable of paying the school fees. They had no source of revenue anymore. Then, Hamza taught Aziz how they could develop entrepreneurship by deploying his little capital from the small business he did. In vain, Aziz did not want to cooperate with anyone in the family. He continued to keep himself at distance from both his parents and his brother. Hamza went on doing his deal and expected to graduate from the academy when he would be able to pay the school fees by himself. Luckily, Aziz was sent unexpectedly a text saying that he was retained as an excellent pupil in the national test. Aziz was awarded an overseas scholarship for medical studies in Kentoee. When it was time to go, he waved his parents goodbye but they were not happy for it. He had betrayed them in such a way that they cursed him because he refused to obey his parents. Aziz undertook his trip to Kentoee Medical Academy, while Hamza was considerably developing his business which got more profitable day after day. Hamza did not ignore to conceive new business plans. He oriented his future life in economic affairs and wanted to create multinational enterprises. Everyone has to help his parents. Aziz had not done it even when he got the flying money for a ticket. He should have helped his parents in case he came back. Aziz left in December 1899. He left his parents in full complaints because unnamed poverty was emaciating the family. One year after Aziz’s departure, Hamza had sufficiently developed his affairs. He could study without relying on anybody else. Therefore, he subscribed to Sosha Inn Academy to learn how to guest tourists. He preferred to graduate from there because the income from the business was still low. Hamza was an entrepreneurship-minded little boy. By contrast, he had dropped his entrepreneurial orientation in order to study first, without which he would fail. When he was in the second academic year, Hamza became short of money and was not capable of helping his parents any longer. He lacked the time to manage his business. Then, his father integrated Miccky Society of Beggars. Mr. Broom with other members of Miccky rose early, went and spread out on streets, markets and transportation points and nearby hotels. They rummaged hastily through garbage to see whether they could collect money or any edible things left by passengers. They tended hands to merciful tourists. The more time rushed, the more things got worse. The famine got unstoppable to Mr. Broom. The whole family was alerted and was to the point of doing beggary. In winter, during the Thanksgiving holiday occasion, Aziz flew back to Bubravo from Kentoee. He had so much money that he could not spend the whole vacation at home but in hotels. Aziz did not care about the current situation of his family; he did not think of pulling out his father from the street. And what was a bit silly, he went to pay a visit to his mother in a beautiful car but left her nothing. When Aziz was circulating through Mkenzo Street towards the beach, he surprisingly met his father. Broom didn't recognize his son and had begged him. The hobo went without helping his father. The tramp Aziz was addicted to sex from his childhood. He planned to spend nights for his vacation with promiscuous girls in hotels. The consequences of that addiction occurred suddenly. When Aziz was in bed with his sex partner, the prostitute picked his pocket and stole the money he had and fled. Another related evil outcome was that the vagabond Aziz contracted AIDS. When Aziz rose, he found his money stolen and the promiscuous lady vanished. He began to think over how to pay the lodging bills for the hotel invoices. As an issue to the fact, Aziz was taken to prison because he lacked how to settle up the money he owed to the hotel. After a year of imprisonment, his brother Hamza finished his superior studies in hotel management. Then, Hamza got selected and employed quickly at Mkenzo Beach Hotel where Aziz had spent the vacation. When the manager of the hotel was having a look at Hamza’s file, he realized that Hamza’s parents’ names resembled Aziz’s parents’ ones. The manager asked the parental relationship between Hamza and Aziz. Hamza got surprised about why the manager asked such a question to him. Hamza did not know that his brother Aziz was jailed. Queerly, Hamza responded to the manager that he was issued from the same womb with Aziz. Immediately, the manager promised to set free Aziz. He told Hamza that his big brother was guilty of having aroused maladjustment and caused disgust. Aziz had been unable to pay his lodging bills. Distressed, Aziz was freed and got out of the jail. He was not still able to return to Kentoee Medical Academy because of his stolen air ticket. Cheerfully, Hamza was upgraded to high-ranked level. He was named Director in charge of jointly provisioning and lodging affairs. The more he got promoted, the more his wage went up. That made him plan to pull out his father from the street. To highly promote his family, Hamza created a factory that manufactured mattresses. He first appointed his father General Director of the factory. He also looked for a new job for his mother. Pola was transferred to the Ministry of National Budget and Finances as Assistant and Spokeswoman. Hamza did not forget his brother Aziz too. He committed himself to pay the ticket for him in order to enable him to go back to Kentoee to resume his medical studies. Soon after such Hamza’s achievements, he was appointed Minister of Public Work. Then, he enriched his family and rehabilitated his parents’ house. They lived an up-todate life regarding the current family’s conditions of life. Before that Aziz returned to Kentoee, Hamza gathered his family and taught them some important instructions. He told his father to forget about his former business of selling drugs. He asked him to highly value his position as General Director of the factory which he directed. He also advised them to create bank accounts and taught them how to save money by creating saving accounts on which they might make deposits and use it when required. “For instance, if you had saved you would not have missed the five million dollars to pay to the court. The colossal riches we owned should not have been seized by the national customs office”, explained Hamza. The same useful counsels were likewise addressed to his mother. Hamza told his mother to get rid of fraudulent ways that might jeopardize her and her family consequently. He ended his session by insisting on more important pieces of advice to his brother Aziz. “Go and resume your studies at Kentoee Medical Academy, I pledge to pay the flight ticket and the related money, but avoid joking”, reiterated Hamza to his brother. As far as he was concerned, the father promised to honor his position and develop the company he was responsible for. Broom expected to extend production, finances, marketing to a global extent and enhance the supplying means. Afterward, the factory was adjusted to international standards and manufactured super quality mattresses. The society found raw materials from Thailand and Indonesia where the prices of rubber are lower than international raw material tariffs. Mr. Broom the head of this manufacturing factory, received many orders placed from abroad and managed to satisfy them all. He created three bank accounts, one for him, another for his wife and the last for his faithful son Hamza. He did not forget to register with insurance companies engaged in social security for the firm’s security and family’s health. Pola made the same progress. She earned from her post a good income. She planned to create a feminine organization in the framework of developing and promoting the feminine gender. Once she created that frame, she became the chairwoman. The association was named Common Woman Promoting Frame. It gathered Bubravo women and other women from neighbouring countries. It was successful and beneficial at Mr. Broom’s family. Things had resumed their former rhythm. Broom had no other task rather than raising money and re-building up his economy. Mind you that Hamza got married when he was thirty years old. His wife Bellah, a young primitive well brought up lady from Sosha city was also a great entrepreneur. Hamza’s wedding ceremonies were honoured by His Excellency Mpignot Zeid the president of Bubravo. Other honorable and high personalities of the government also hoisted the festivities. Such were members of Bubravo Parliament and his colleagues at the Ministry of Public Work. In his plans, Hamza had the ideas to stop procreating when he would be married with two children. That encouraged his wife to use family planning methods. Bellah herself did not like a vast progeny. It would hinder her entrepreneurial activities. Hamza’s career kept on going ahead. He performed well his functions at the title of Minister of Public Work. During his profession, he included intensive political activities. He then integrated the Bubravo National Union Party. When it was time for propaganda, Hamza was well placed to lead his party during the following presidential elections. Hamza beat Mpignot Zeid, Bubravo former president whom he was competing with. He won the presidential elections within a crushing victory of sixty votes versus thirty for Zeid. That victory implied undoubtedly that Hamza had actually been followed by the parental blessings uttered solemnly in his regard. A year after his marriage, he got the first born kid and named him Akim Hamza. That one was an angel-like boy and was too much alike Bellah, his mother. When Akim was two, he started preschool. At six years, he went on with elementary school. At ten, his parents had borne another female child whose name was Bellah Joy. The latter resembled her father. She was so called because the members of both families: Broom’s and Hamza’s were currently joyful. Hamza liked very much his children and the children, in turn, liked their parents because they received a worthy up-bringing. The parents took enough time to make father/mother-child discussion in the purpose of getting them used to social and good values. They prevented them from incurring consequences from spoilage. Unlike Hamza, Aziz was undergoing the first curse effects. After a long time of imprisonment, He went back to school in Kentoee. He resumed his medical studies. When he finished graduating, he denied coming back to Bubravo and remained in Kentoee. He got employed at Kentoee Academic and Research Hospital. After two years at work, he bought both a beautiful car and a house. Afterward, he fell in love with Nomich a young nurse employed there too. Aziz used to give a lift to Nomich frequently when they went to work. Hence, he started thinking of getting married. He planned to date Nomich for the first time so as to check whether they could become partners. Although Aziz promised to woo Nomich, he would not come over the situation. On D-day, Aziz met Nomich and went to a beautiful bar for relaxation. After a two hour drink, he hired a room in the hotel where the couple had had sex. Aziz was compelled to move his girlfriend to her home. From the hotel to where Nomich lived, it is fifty kilometers far. Aziz had to drive quickly. In mid-way, he reached bumpy, holey and sloping areas. Due to drunkenness and the high speed, the driver had confusion about where they were. He mishandled the steering wheel and the car deviated and ran into a rock. Aziz and his girlfriend had undergone a terrifying and hair-raising car crash he had ever seen. That was the balance of the accident: Aziz had his right leg broken and his car was irreparably smashed up, his girlfriend was seriously wounded at the head and lost her balance. Wholly, the crash aborted Aziz’s wedding plan. As Aziz was foreign in that country and that nobody knew him, they disregarded to take them to the hospital. So many passengers ran, but none of them took care of them. The traffic was too heavy and the road signaled the fro and to movements from all sides. An hour after, the former school colleague of Aziz named Mzuchi went by there. Then Aziz managed to know him because he was among the intimate friends of his. Mzuchi stopped the car and came to see what happened. He took them to Kentoee Academic and Research Hospital, where they worked. Nomich had quickly recovered and did not want his boyfriend anymore. Nomich thought that since Aziz, with such an ailment, would not be able to marry her. In turn, Aziz himself gave up Nomich because she did not go to see him during hospitalization. Their love had faded up. It would take Aziz at least three months to get cured. A period after, the doctor told him that it was going well. When he recovered he continued with his wedding plan. In December 1990, he got married to a young Kentoeen doctor. Nocchi, a beautiful lady, formerly prostitute from Kentoee city married Aziz. Aziz ignored that Nocchi was HIV positive. Aziz soliloquized that medical tests did not matter. The couple gave birth to two boys: Thiefy and Robbery. Deceitfully, Nocchi should not get used to man-tying poverty and pursued her job of prostitution. When she was at home, she stole the money in order to buy whatever she wanted against his husband’s will. Aziz became very poor because he did not know how his money disappeared. When he was at work, his wife broke the wedlock. The children did not get any occasion to be brought up, but they often saw their parents quarrelling. They inherited strange behaviour from the childhood because they were brought up terror-like sons. When they grew up they frequently frightened their father to death if he did not give them money to buy a car like other teenagers of the city. In the meanwhile, when Nocchi was drunk at the bar, an idea stirred in her mind to rob her sexual client of his money. When the partner was enjoying sex, Nocchi picked the client’s pocket, took the money and hid it beneath the mattress. When the client realized that theft, he beat Nocchi bitterly. The hotel manager realized that the agonizing prostitute should decease there. He called his so-called husband. Dreadfully, Aziz took his wife to the hospital. As Nocchi was suffering from AIDS, she had no strong blood cells. That made the situation much worse. Nocchi deceased after two days. Aziz remained widow and was lonely responsible for his children. When Thiefy and Robbery got informed that their mother had recently died, they began to menace their father terribly. They robbed him of all that he owned. On Monday, they spent the whole day under empty stomach. In the evening, they organized a short lasting conspiracy. They beat their father to death. On the agony, Aziz did not manage to go to the hospital. He spent days and weeks at home without going to work and he was in poor health. And then it happened, after three weeks he began to feel little strength and started looking for food. When he recovered, he decided to apply for a bank loan. He was in great need of money, but in vain. His bank account was not debited because he stayed away from his job for the whole month. He opted to apply for an overdraft. Vainly, the strange boys realized that he had gotten money and stole it once again. Although he made up his mind to find out some ways he could survive, his two sons did not want to see him. They were emaciated and dying of hunger. The eve before Sunday of July, Thiefy and Robbery decided to rob Kentoee People’s Bank. They had heard that their grandfather was a famous drug trafficker. They asked their father to tell them which kinds of drugs their grandfather sold. He told them hashish, cocaine, marijuana, cannabis and dope. On the evening, they were having together a drink with the three bank night watchmen at the bar. They bought hashish for them which is one of the strongest drug I had ever tasted. Drugged and dingily drunk, the watchmen forgot to go to the night job. The two bandits had struck the doors of the bank and opened the safe very quietly. Kentoee People’s Bank was robbed serenely. The following day of the theft, the bank manager carried out harsh investigations. He found out that the watchmen were not there that night. There were two strange bandits who stupefied the watchmen with drugs. The two boys were suddenly taken to the police station. The police made them a quick file and their process was classified flagrant. The corresponding punishment was that their father was compelled to pay back the money stolen plus a million dollar fine. The wrongdoers had to incur a two-year imprisonment. Paying the fine was mandatorily unforgeable, Aziz sold the house he lived in and acquitted himself. He got a little surplus which matched evenly the flying ticket to Bubravo. He decided to back to his motherland. When he arrived, he was covered with shame and had nothing to recount to his father and mother. Aziz had become an outcast. He had betrayed his parents and had forsaken them. Aziz wrote a kilometric script. He mentioned the sequential life after his studies. The script recounted all sins and betrayals he committed. It contained his request for forgiveness. Apart from his memorial writing, Aziz had another plan. He wanted to deposit the document in his parents’ bedroom and perpetrated a suicide. By doing so, he prepared a mixture of water and toxic powder and the latter dissolved. He then drank that mixture when his parents were still at work. However, it did not kill him, but rather weakened him as it was obviously diluted. Aziz made another similar trial, but in vain. Aware that his parents might come before he finished, he fancied another way to commit suicide. He then rushed to the market and bought a five-metre rope and came quickly at home. Eventually, Aziz fastened the rope to the roof of the house, tied his neck and hanged himself. When he was pending he cried: ‘Untie me Mum, untie me Dad despite my