Murad Manan .... fighter to resist Aleppo and  martyred  to Resistence of Age

MOHEMMED ABDO/ALEPPO

Murad Manan  was born in a poor national family in Sheikh Maksoud neighborhood of Aleppo on April 1, 1994  , whose nom de guerre is Rizan Zagaros , the first child of a family of 4 young men and 2 daughters.

For nearly 40 years, the family lived in Aleppo city.  Fighter 's grandfather was one of the first to emigrate from Qantra village belonging to Mobata district in Afrin canton to Aleppo city to settle in Sheikh Maksoud neighborhood to seek employment as a result of the deteriorating economic conditions of the family.

The family has been dealing with the members of Kurdistan Liberation Movement in secret and intermittent since 1998 due to pressure imposed by the regime forces on the people at the time of arbitrary arrests and military courts on fabricated and different charges.

Murad was characterized by excessive shyness with his parents and strangers people . He was quick clever at work and often took the lessons and life instructions of the elderly people, along with his love for children and playing with them, where he worked to delight his younger brothers to cheer them up and draw joy on their faces.

He was forced to leave the school at age of 10 to look for work to help his father and support the family of eight members. His relationship with his parents was based on friendship and mutual respect, as well as cooperation and assistance for the advancement of the family.

His father describe his morals "He was his high morals with his comrades  refused to act without consulting me, struggled for his family to protect them and to ensure a good life for them."

Murad studied elementary school for the fourth grade and because of the fragile economic conditions of the family was forced to leave school and support his family with his uncle, who is  considered a companion his life, which has undergone a difficult way since the age of nails.

Murad and his uncle worked in wood carpentry as a work to earn daily sustenance to help the father and end their living crisis and improve their economic situation. The satisfaction of the parents was his goal and Murad succeeded in achieving his goal.

His uncle Zuhair Manan, Administrator of Asayish forces, say Murad taught me a lot of things taught me to sacrifice for survival. "I consider him a brother to me and not a nephew when I talk about him. I can not describe him right. The feelings of losing my eyeball are not easy. And the cruelty that has passed on  me ."

With the beginning of the revolutionary movement in Aleppo in 2012 during the revolution of 19 July, the father of the fighter Mohammed Manan joined the newly formed forces charged with protecting the neighborhood from all the threats facing them. In 2013 these forces become the Asayish of Aleppo and the father is the first to join  of 19th Revolution Of July and opens the way for his family members of the approach of martyrs of freedom.

After seeing his fahter the martyr Murad  rushing to protect his family by going to the frontiers of Sheikh Maksoud neighborhood, Murad decided to follow his father's path at the age of 18, and he and his uncle Zuhair decided to join the Asayish forces alongside his father after he was a member of the Revolutionary Youth Movement.

About a year after joining the Asayish forces, Murad decided to join the revolution further to consolidate his order and join to  People and Women Protection Units (YPG,YPJ) at Aleppo in early 2013 and  chose name of Rizan Zagros as nom de guerre .

The fighter Murad  participated in all the battles of honor and defense of the neighborhood of resistance from the battles of  al-Hayani 1, 2 ,3  and  and the battles to liberate the neighborhoods of al-Ashrafieh ,Bani Zeid and the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo from the period between 2012 and 2016.

After the fighting in Afrin against Turkish fascism and its mercenaries, Murad and his comrades went to the fronts of Afrin to defend the land of his ancestors.

Murad saw the national duty at the height of the fighting in Afrin higher than everything, although he married before going to participate in the battles in Afrin one month, but did not hesitate to take the decision of the resistance to maintain existence.

A few days after joining the defense of Afrin, Murad reached  to rank of martyr in Berkacha village belonging to Bulbul district on 12 February 2018.

His mother say most precious possessions have been sacrificed in order to uphold the banner of 19th Revolution of July and to achieve victory in Resistence the Age. Mother Murad was saddened by loss of her son, but at the same time she promised the people to follow in his footsteps of her martyred son. Protect its people and fulfill his covenan.

Amina said in the story of the arrival of the news of the martyrdom of her son, saying: "I felt shortnees of  my breath in one night, it was the mother's sense that alerted me to the arrival of the danger to my son, contacted his friends and informed me that he was fine, did not rest assured to contact with his friends, but the answer was the same and in after noon late hours Murad 's uncle  (Zuhair) call me my husband and told him the news I did not know what to do ... I cry or cheer I lost a great man gave me the satisfaction of my life.

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ANHA