There is a silence that screams!

There is a silence that screams!

There is a silence that screams. It comes not from voices, but from their absence. Not from sounds, but from indifference. Such is the silence of the system.

Ten months ago, a four-year-old child from Kableshkovo spoke up. Not with the words of an adult, not with legal terms, not with complex accusations. He spoke with pain, with trauma, with a torn truth. And then the system fell silent.

When a child talks about pain, society must be silent, just to hear. And then – to raise its voice, to protect, to investigate, to punish, to heal. Instead, our system has stooped down so as not to take responsibility. Another story with a lesson for all of us. About the way in which institutions do not protect the weak, but protect themselves.

The child from Kableshkovo is a symbol of dozens of children who will not be heard if their parents do not scream loudly enough. The silence of the system is complicity. It is institutional cynicism. If the protection of children is activated not when they are in need, but when the televisions start asking… what kind of protection are we talking about?

The silence of the system is not a lack of resources…but it is indicative of fundamental deficiencies. What do we teach our children when their truth is not enough? When their pain is questioned? When justice only comes if they get into the right reporting?

The silence of the institutions is our common shame.

The system will say it follows procedures. It will justify itself by saying it needs evidence, that investigations are complicated, that it is cumbersome, that... that... that...

However, childhood has no deadlines. Injuries have no patience. Pain does not wait for a signature, it does not understand prosecutorial liabilities and expert tricks...

And if he doesn't hear it today, he won't hear it tomorrow. Then this silence will become a wall that can't be crossed. A wall of distrust, and fear, and loneliness, and horror.

Silence on such topics is the absence of resistance. And when there is no resistance to injustice and the horror of violence, it is established as the norm. And then…. What will save us? Who will stand up for the children?
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