They certainly were needless deaths, and I have argued for an investigation and for questions to be asked.

There are lessons to be learned.

My point is about the quick finger of blame. It is all to easy for us to blame the government as soon as anything happens without even caring about the poor soldiers.

To some people – and I am not suggesting you Yazan – the deaths of these soldiers are a useful nail to hammer in.

My point here is that it is a grotesque politicisation. And it also makes little sense.

There are questions to be asked. But for now, I think we should let these fifteen men rest in peace – as your title rightly suggests.

The plot of the story is on another planet called Sasa, and this is
only an excerpt from chapter 3 out of 10 chapters.

This story is about this planet which its inhabitants have a disease called scaryfobia which make them scared from their rulers and it describes how the whole planet went extinct because of negligence.

‘First, it started with couple of honest voices asking questions, and then it grew up to more and more demands from the public to start an inquiry. The government tried to stop that but the voices of public
angers forced them to assign an inquiry panel. Government tried to cover up but one good guy (and usually it takes only one good guy) could obtain this documents from the inquiry. The document details the conversation between the panel and the sergeant who was suppose to be on the site at the time of explosion which the good guy published it on the net.

“-Why do you think the explosion happened? A- Sir, the Ammunitions were all over the place and were not inside storage rooms.
-What do you mean sergeant? A- The door was locked to the ammunitions was lock and when they brought back what was left from the exercises the left them in front of the storage outside.
-Why the storage area was locked and who keep the keys? Sir, the ammunition storage always locked and the key usually with the colonel.
-Where was the colonel at the time of explosion?. A- The colonel was in city and he was not on the campus.
-Ah aha, Again sergeant why do you think the explosion happened? A- Sir, it must be from the heat, these explosives should be inside in a cool area and not outside in the high temperature which could simmer in the heat and then explode.
-Do you think that someone could intentionally have exploded the ammunitions? A- No sir.”

It turned out that the colonel was responsible for this incident due to his negligence, but the inquiry panel could not say that since the colonel was one of them and his brother is a big guy in the army and his daughter is married to another big guy so they had to cover it up and they issued a statement that it was no one fault and only the heat was responsible for the explosion.

It turned out that it is not only the electric sector of the roads or the oil ministry are in chandelle, it was also the army and the whole planet is in bad shape and needs overhaul, but since the people has this bad disease they did bother. The ruler was so happy with things as they are they issued a statement that the heat was responsible for the explosion and from now on they will buy explosion with explosion point below 45 degrees. The government never issued the names of the victims so it can keep the public away from knowing much about the incident. They compensate the family victims a 50 pizza pound for each, however this number was less than what the brothers’ victims who lives outside the planet paid for not serving the military in the amount of 2 millions times.’
sorry Yaza for the long post!

Sasa, I will not repeat the many legible questions Ayman counted, but you really think these questions are irrelevant?
How many times does it have to happen before we start doubting that Ammunition should not blow up normally at 4am [even with heat levels at 45c, ofcourse if we do believe that it is possible to have 45c at 4am!!]… before we at least honor those who died by the least effort.

Regardless of what you may think, I, do not lead a political agenda, I simply care about this country, and what I said here was not because I don’t agree with, nor like, the current regime, it is because of real anger at what happened. It is because, these men are supposed to be Our Guardians of The Homeland. They deserve much more respect to their lives.

Let me give you another story. A country was hit by floods, 6 people died. Less than a month later, more floods hit the same country, and 2 more people died.

Who was responsible? The government? Should they have put better flood defences in? Yes. Was it their fault for the deaths – the overwhelming weight of public opinion says no. (This example was Britain).

We don’t see the opposition blaming the government – that would be insensitive, and would be playing politics with these people’s lives.

It was an incredibly unusual event – the government could’ve and should’ve done more. But because of its rareity, it just doesn’t make sense to attribute blame.

Now, if we’re talking about road deaths in Syria. That’s a different matter.

I’ve heard that the explosion took place inside a university student training camp. (mo3asker tadreeb jame3y)… So they are not soldiers per se, it seems that most of them are junior students…

Now the question is, why would the ammunition, artillery projectile be stored in such a negligent manner nearby a lodging facility?????? (note that the incident took place at 4:30 AM, while the victims were asleep)

Allah yer7amon…

I am fully with Yazan and the others on this one, and I disagree with Sasa. Accident maybe, but since we all know the regime and the government well enough, it is only logical to suspect incompetence and carelessness as contributing factors, to say the least. Not to mention that it happened during the coolest hour of the day.

Who said we’re blaming Israel for this? It’s the regime which did this Sasa, not the people.

Frankly, I am not too keen on an inquiry, because we know that the true responsible people will get away with it. Remember Zeyzoun Dam? Big fat help the enquiry did us!

There needs to be accountability. If this had happened in a democratic country, heads would have been rolling already … or at the very least the superiors responsible for this tragedy would have had the decency to resign. We all know none of that will happen either.

So the least we can do is lament the death of these poor soldiers, and keep on pointing fingers.

I am not suggesting that the story is fabricated. We were simply told that heat caused an explosion that killed 15 and injured 50? How and why this happened remain a mystery! That’s why we need an investigation.