kosovo rroma

[olah vince]

Rroma Reality

At the ending of 20 century, beginning of the 21st century,
230.000. Rroma people were exiled from Kosovo and Metohia,
brutal and rasistic, and became nomads once again,
without any rigts for living the home and future.
Olah.V.Baba& EWS –band project
RROMA TALAVA
is the music reflecting on the Rroma from Kosovo.



www.earthwheelskyband.com

[Els de Groen]

Dear Olah!
This is a very good inititive of yours! Anja Tuckermann, the German writer, who published about the Porrajmos, said a couple of days ago that we should also focus on what is happening now, with people expelled to Kosovo. I know Kosovo quite well. I wrote 2 books about it and visited the camps in Mitrovica, where the smell of lead is in the air. Maybe we can do a common activity, with your project and the work of other artists. Let's think about this! Beautiful website your band has!

[Viola Hinz-Hassan Pour Razavi]

Makes me so sad to read that. It is unbeleavable what human beings do to other human beings and this as you write in the 21st century. is mankind unable to learn? Or is civilisation just a thin film which breaks very easily? I do not know any religion and only one political ideology which allows to treat others like that. We should all stand together against such injustice and brutality.

[Els de Groen]

I proposed to start an activity on the unacceptable situation of the Roma in the lead camps. Even those who finally could leave the place, will suffer for ever from the loss of children or health. Let us work together with music, texts and film. I am very much in davor of writing a personal story on one or two of the children. We should make a song, with strong music and produce a film. Maybe Sami from Kosovo is interested? Please, come with additional ideas!

[Els de Groen]

Osterode
or Kosovo death-camp 2011

A breath of death
is in the air
The smell of lead
is everywhere
No use to shrink
Nowhere to hide
It's in a drink
In every bite
It's in the rains
and filthy mud
In children's brains
and children's blood

How should they know
small IDPs
that freedom does not stink
And that the iron curtain life
was printed with the ink
of the Authorities

How should they know
these playing kids
who flourish on the lead
that those who can still use their brains
ignore the rise of death
until it stops and fits

again the moral standards

Els de Groen, painting by Gabi Jimenez

[Els de Groen]

Today I saw a video, made by the Roma Decade, on 2 Roma boys, born in and expelled from Germany. Approximately 13 or 14 years old. They are in the Leposavic camp, close to former mines. Instead of attending school they are breaking up cars to financially support their family. And so European member states ruin both the future and the healh of children. It is difficult to catch this in words. Therefore:

 

[Viola Hinz-Hassan Pour Razavi]

It is such a cruelty that it is unbeleavable