Street roots., August 30, 2013, Page 8, Image 8

street roots
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Aug. 30, 2013
PH O TO BY S T O Y A N N E N O V
Roma: A
people
without
alan d
Good Afternoon,
Roma!
by Hedina Tahirovi Sijer
P H O T O B Y PETER A N D R E W S
In a dream
I am producing a radio-program in Romani.
I am listening to my voice:
“Good afternoon, Roma and children!
Good health and luck to you!”
Studio, microphone, music.
Gadze dance with us.
Gadze laugh with us.
I am happy.
Bulgarian Roma women react as an
excavator demolishes their house in a Roma
suburb in the town o f Maglizh.. Above: A
Roma woman and her child beg fo r money
in the old town o f Warsaw. Left: Roma
refugees from Kosovo drink water at the
Vrela Ribnicka camp in Podgorica.
In a dream
I am producing a radio-program in Romani.
I am listening to my voice:
“Flee Roma! Flee children!
Flee as far as you can!”
Bombs, guns, knives.
The Gadze beat us.
The Gadze kill us.
I am devastated.
P H O T O B Y PETER A N D R E W S