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The Egyptian Set el Nas They took away her sanity and identity
öAn elderly lady surprised us in Al Ard center as she yelled and reached out to us, holding a bag full of papers that attest her ownership of a feddan of land and a house that she had inherited from her deceased brother in Beni Suef governorate.
She started hallucinating about people wanting to kill her, the mayor and sheikh el balad conspiring together against her, and after taking away her rights and beating her up she had to leave the village and live beside the wall of the mosque of Sayeda Zeinab. She was always screaming, "I know that if the president found out he will send those criminals to jail, I hear he is a good man who defends the poor farmers. She was mixing up the different rulers, referring once to the late presidents Abd el Nasser, Sadat, even king Farouk and King Fouad. The lady who was following up the case of Set el Nas, cried and said that women in Egypt are insulted beyond tolerance, so how can Set el Nas regain her sanity and her rights that include her house and land, so she would live there once again with her children?
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How can we restore her dignity after the criminals had framed and imprisoned her? It has been found out that the person who seized her land is the new husband of her sister in law. This man is related to the mayor of Ezbet Saleh Pasha el maloum- EL fashn, Beni Suef governorate and his name is EL Masri Khalifa. One of her relatives, who witnessed the whole story mentioned how el Masry has seized the land of a defenceless woman, throw her and her children out of their own home, followed her to el Sayeda zeinab, stole her money and threatened to kill her.
Moreover, a policeman from Sayeda Zeinab police department took her by force to Ahmed Maher Hospital, despite her saying that she was sane, had it not been for the anger fits she has because of what she had been through.
Set el Nas fainted, and after she woke up she showed the contracts that prove her ownership and the malicious police reports, that resulted in imprisoning her for a month, where she suffered most because of the policemen.
Al Ard center is wondering who is responsible for what is going on now in Egypt. Illegitimate seizure of land, and the spread of corruption, bribery and trading everything even human and moral values are traded off in this wild market called political and social regime…. Is it the responsibility of systems and theories, or the responsibility of those who implement them, or the criminals who create the frameworks and justification that deceived Set el Nas, and other women like her. Whose responsibility is it?
Is Set el Nas an individual case or a group case? And how could those victims who come every day to the center restore their rights and sue their tormentors, who usurped all they have; even the identity and the mind were stolen. Who can send those tormentors and criminals to trial. After Set el Nas had calmed down and felt she was safe, she told the story once again, pointing her accusing fingers at all of us. We have contributed to our country's downfall with our silence, our justifications, our personal interests or our pursuit to improve our lives, whether directly or indirectly.
Her story reemphasizes the necessity to be committed to liberate our societies from fear, shackles and oppression and the necessity to collaborate and work diligently together to face the corruption, forgery, lies and cheating in our lives to succees in our struggle to secure a healthy, clean environment and a dignified life to all Egyptians, a life that provides the citizens with safety, freedom, dignity and justice in Egypt.
This is an invitation from the Egyptian Set el Nas… could she find someone to hear her?
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