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Filth, discipline, cursing, and beating. I can’t tell you how much I was beaten. I weighed 70 kilos when I was appointed to the Southeast, I was 49 kilos on the day of my discharge. The difference is 21 kilos. … It took six months to pull myself together. I was on duty 45 kilometers away from my birthplace. And this in itself was very depressing. Why were all of us soldiers from the Southeast? This is state policy. Southeasterners confront Southeasterners. Before the war, those from the Southeast would as a rule be appointed to the West and vice versa. Now it is the opposite. We were 350 men in the company and not even 50 of them were from the West.
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© 1998 Nadire Mater, Metis Yayinlari
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Mater, N. (1998). 1313: The Number Inscribed on my Arm. In: Voices from the Front. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-8188-2_16
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