{"id":93584,"date":"2026-07-13T16:38:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecoitaliano.com.ar\/?p=93584"},"modified":"2026-07-13T16:38:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:38:40","slug":"the-fate-of-uncle-mammadhasans-donkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecoitaliano.com.ar\/?p=93584","title":{"rendered":"The Fate of Uncle Mammadhasan’s Donkey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bahtiyar Hidayet, Azerbaijan<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Back then, in those beautiful days,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uncle Mammadhasan was happy, his family was happy, and his donkey was happy too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In summer, Uncle Mammadhasan worked at a Pioneer camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the Pioneer children knew his donkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The donkey knew them too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It could even tell the city Pioneer children from the village children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He took very good care of the donkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He bathed it in the river,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

burned garma to drive away its flies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pioneer children even fought with each other<\/p>\n\n\n\n

for the chance to bathe the donkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He had convinced us that<\/p>\n\n\n\n

when the donkey was bathed, it rained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this time it did not rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bullets rained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fire of war flared up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fire of war drove away fairness, mercy, and conscience<\/p>\n\n\n\n

like flies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uncle Mammadhasan’s two sons became martyrs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He settled in a remote village as a refugee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And his donkey was stolen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This loss burned Uncle Mammadhasan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

as much as the grief for his sons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In those years there was no natural gas in the district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone carried firewood with donkeys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The price of a donkey had gone up;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the value of a human being had gone down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uncle Mammadhasan’s donkey<\/p>\n\n\n\n

had been sold to firewood traders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every day it was under a heavy load.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was no one who knew its suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And one day it died under its load.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They did not even leave its dead body alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They gave it to a sausage factory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These were Uncle Mammadhasan’s last days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was eating cheap sausage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The railway wagon where he lived<\/p>\n\n\n\n

was a source of a bad smell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He ate sausage<\/p>\n\n\n\n

at the table where he killed flies with a fly swatter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The heat gave him no peace either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He no longer killed flies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He fanned himself with the fly swatter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to cool himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was real torment of hell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That donkey’s cleanliness<\/p>\n\n\n\n

no longer exists in this world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wish I could bathe that donkey<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in the river once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And with the water<\/p>\n\n\n\n

with which I bathed that donkey,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wish I could put out<\/p>\n\n\n\n

all the fires of war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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