Welfare services of servants of captives

From Azadegan Encyclopedia

Like cooking, laundry, cleaning the sanatorium for other prisoners. Some of them volunteered to look after the sick and wounded, which was difficult, especially for the youth; as it involved things like  washing the sputum dishes of patients and the elderly; washing clothes; Bathing the elderly, cleaning their ears, patching their clothes. Some took it upon themselves to clean the sanatorium and the toilet and the pipes of the sewage system, which the Iraqis often neglected, and to fill the water buckets next to the toilets so that people in worse physical conditions could rest more. In this, even doctors and educated prisoners participated voluntarily[1] . Elderly prisoners who were familiar with agriculture, volunteered to grow vegetables such as tomatoes in the gardens of the camp[2].

Some people volunteered to set up ovens and to run the kitchen. they took charge of everything from cooking food to distributing it. Washing the sanatorium dishes and cleaning the kitchen were voluntary. Some made a vow and to fulfill their vow, they washed the  dishes of all the prisoners or the clothes of the sick and elderly. During the first years of captivity, those who volunteered to get food from the kitchen for hungry sick captives, showed insistence on that charitable work in spite of knowing that they were going to get whipped by the guards as they could not bring themselves to sit by and see their brothers starve to death. The job of some servants was to keep watch in the hospital from night to morning in order to take care of the group that had been  beaten and wounded by the Iraqi forces[3].

See also

Bibliography

  1. Salaminejad, A. (2008). Mayor of the camp, Vol. 2. Tehran: Azadegan Cultural and Art Institute.
  2. Khaji, A.(2019). Description of the cage. Tehran: Azadegan Cultural and Art Institute
  3. Azadegan Scientific Council. (2019). Azadegan Encyclopedia: Iranian prisoners freed in the war between Iraq and Iran. Tehran: Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies; Azadegan Cultural and Art Institute,

Parvin Kashanizadeh