Antara Darah dan Hati: Dream Reality English Translation

Chapter 19 Part 2 "David tegen Goliath"

POV Sofia

On the D-1 day before the trial, I finally received news from sister Tantri regarding brother Lodewijk's awakening from his coma. Knowing this was happening, I immediately informed my uncle, his majesty the king of the Netherlands about the news that had been conveyed by sister Tantri regarding brother Lodewijk's current condition and asked him to issue a koninklijk besluit so that the court session for sinjo Karim's case would have additional time to be postponed until brother Lodewijk is recovered. Apart from that, with the help of brother Ilya and his friends on social media who are in the opposition faction, we spread the news regarding brother Lodewijk's awakening as soon as possible so that it attracted the attention of various national mass media to cover and publish the news that brother Lodewijk had awakened from his coma.

The awakening of brother Lodewijk made me feel guilty for having happiness feeling because while the case that sinjo Karim and I were facing would be resolved soon, on the other hand the demonstration that had been going on since several days ago was still not over because the Volksraad members were still not ready to meet the demonstrators and with the help of the police, the building which was functioned as a nest for them to reside is still under tight security even according to the news that are circulating, it is being said that on the roof of the Volksraad building, snipers are placed and always ready to shoot.

So far, the number of victims from the riot that has been going on for almost a week has reached almost a hundred people. Knowing this makes my heart aching and in pain, they are the people, they should be served instead of being treated as enemies but why the parliament and state security instruments treat them like a threat? Have the parliament and state security instruments run out of enemies to be fought?

Actually uncle could have fired that damned Prime Minister, the problem is that almost all the MPs and the Prime Minister, they are all one and they belongs to the same group of people. If uncle removes the Prime Minister, the members of parliament can consult and make a decision to remove uncle from his throne by forcing him to abdicate on the grounds that uncle is unable to lead because of health or mental problems as their reasonings and they can replace uncle with a successor to the throne that they can control accordingly to their own will. I am sure that is the reason why uncle has not made any statements regarding all of the problems that have befallen VSI lately.

If I were in uncle's position, maybe I would also be very careful to act. He was only one man against many who could dethrone him and he was also not someone safe from death threats or other threats if he acted blatantly against those who wielded real power.

How do I know? There was a king in a faraway land, in a land surrounded by desert, under the ground which he stood on lies a natural resource which was nicknamed black gold. A superpower nation really wanted that black gold underneath the king's feet but the king refused to sell it to them on the grounds that this superpower nation supported the colonization of a place that functioned as a holy city for three religions. In the end, the king was killed by his own nephew with secret help from this superpower nation and the black gold under the ground in which the former king was once stood upon was sold to that superpower nation. There is no other way, tomorrow I will also go down to the streets, joining the people in their protest against the injustice of the current government or more innocent lives will be lost.

The next day after studying the learning material in a class on campus I went to the demonstration gathering point where demonstrators from my campus would demonstrate at a different point from the demonstration before to do a quick flash mob before Schutterij's troops met them to disperse them, following one of the demonstration tactics in Hong Kong which has a name be like water, which means be flexible to do demonstration anywhere.