Ibrahim live Bialek Muslim Bulgarian forty years ago with a shot in the arm fired him because he refused to change his name another Christian despite instructions to merge in light of the communist dictatorship.
And belongs this old man 65 years his dark skin and smile cunning and who hails from Kornettsa (South), to minority Pomak, which includes two hundred thousand people and speak the Bulgarian language, but embrace the Islamic religion, people of Pomak Bulgarian converted to Islam during the dominance of the Ottoman Empire between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries.
In 1973, Pomak became a target of coercive integration policy lasted for eleven years and targeted eight hundred thousand Bulgarian of Turkish origin.
Circumcision of boys raised campaign of persecution and banning the wearing of traditional clothing, traditional holidays were also unpopular communist regime, which was considered Muslims as a "fifth column" of Turkey's arch-enemy and a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
The doctor Simon Stweinov who was then working in Kornettsa that the policy of "assimilation began early seventies (of the last century) forcing Pomak to give every new baby a name Bulgaria .. The women hide their pregnancies and give birth to their children in their homes, causing accidents ominous several."
Roy Hussein Srnaliev who had been employed in the agricultural cooperative, "asked intellectuals to change their names since the end of the year 1972," he said, adding "I considered it an insult: I was pain Bulgaria loyal citizen?".
He "in Kornettsa started protesting as of January 1973. Was about ten of us stay overnight Nahariya in the main square around the fireplace to notify others in the event of police intervention."
Ibrahim was Bialek among those on the night of 28 to 29 March 1973 when the "Knights arrived and a police dog jumped on my back, police opened fire, but water hoses firefighters are our squad."
Roy doctor Stweinov "police were accompanied by ambulances, police were shooting at people."
After the spread of News rushed Muslims of villages Aeniteza and neighboring Prznetsa armed with sticks to save population Kornettsa, but police pushed them back.
The wounded were taken to hospital Jutzi Dlchev (South) as Abraham remembers Bialek said, "in the hospital room with closed windows oldest civilians hit and Stmana. Doctor bandaged the wounded, but did not want to remove the bullet, which never go away."
And pay for their freedom by accepting change its name to the Ivailo Blkov. However this identity was deported to the other party of Bulgaria to the area of Vidin (North) where he remained ten years, but his wife, who had not received any news from Abraham, and was deported with her two children, one of whom was in the fifth month and day became mayor Kornettsa, to another place .
Hussein Sarnaliev was shot in the leg. He was sentenced to eight years in prison on charges of "forming a group to destabilize the country's economy and the heart of the system."
His wife were deported Zainab with her two children to Vratsa (north-west) to work on a farm after the confiscation of their home. And this lady said as she wiped tear, "I'm not sorry what عانيته because my faith, unfortunately for him is because I was not able to provide a good education for my children."
And bearing a plaque in Kornettsa name of the six victims of the forced change of names in this village.
Despite the re-Muslim names Bulgarians, who make up 13% of the census in the year 1990 after the fall of the Communist regime, the mistrust still persist.
He Evgina Ivanova Professor Alatnologia aware peoples in Sofia that the integration policy, which often practiced since the liberation of southern Bulgaria from Ottoman domination in 1912, backfired not only served to limit the Muslims.
Faced with growing nationalism in the present time Abraham Bialek fear repeating attempts merger "has returned the ball so many times."
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