Barat Ali Batoor: My desperate journey with a human smuggler
Barat Ali Batoor: Mano žūtbūtinė kelionė su žmonių kontrabandininku
Barat Ali Batoor, an award-winning photojournalist, is a member of the Hazara people. He is based in Australia. Full bio
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of my people is Afghanistan.
of other Hazara kids,
and operation against the Hazaras
going back to the late 1800s,
the Hazara population.
for neighboring Iran and Pakistan.
rugsėjo 11-ąją
attack on the Twin Towers,
with foreign journalists.
working as an interpreter.
to move to Afghanistan permanently,
as a documentary photographer,
stories that I did
an appalling tradition.
dancing for warlords
arba nupirkti
or bought from their poor parents,
for the warlord and his friends.
„Washington Post“,
in the Washington Post,
I returned back to Quetta.
dramatically since I left in 2005.
dangerous city in Pakistan.
mažuose plotuose,
educationally, and financially.
švietimo nebuvimu bei finansiškai.
was ambushed by terrorists in Quetta.
would only get worse,
tik blogėjo,
pabėgti.
that many wanted to flee.
population of Hazaras in the world.
galėjo išvykti,
savo tikslą saugiai,
at my destination safely,
prisijungtų vėliau.
of my family to join me later.
who lost loved ones at sea.
prarado mylimuosius jūroje.
žūtbūtinis sprendimas,
to leave everything behind,
nuskristi į Australiją,
to simply fly to Australia,
less than 24 hours.
ir Indoneziją,
to Malaysia and into Indonesia,
visą kelią,
prieglobsčio siekiančių žmonių grupės.
of seven asylum seekers.
left for the perilous journey,
pavojingą kelionę,
in the sea en route to Christmas Island.
pakeliui į Kalėdų salą.
mūsų kambariokai –
Nawroz, Jaffar and Shabbir --
Shabbir ir Nawroz.
pasirinkimo, kaip tik judėti pirmyn.
no other choice but to go on.
iš žmonių kontrabandininko,
from the people smuggler
to commence our sea journey.
pradėti mūsų kelionę jūra.
that was already overloaded.
kuris jau buvo sausakimšas.
the weather turned.
and the timbers groaned.
meldėsi prisimindami mylimuosius.
praying, recalling their loved ones.
teismo dienos,
from those Hollywood movies
Holivudo filmuose,
is breaking apart
like a matchbox on the water
dėžutė ant vandens
than the motor pumps could take it out.
pompos galėjo išpumpuoti.
praplaukiančios valties dėmesį.
of any passing boat.
by waving our life jackets and whistling.
gelbėjimosi liemenėmis ir švilpdami.
whatever I had documented.
viską, ką buvau užfiksavęs.
as we argued over what to do next.
nesutarėme ką daryti toliau.
the night on the beach,
Indonezijos vandens policijai.
to Indonesian water police.
and furtively strip-searched us.
vogčiomis apieškojo mus nuogus.
mano 300 grynųjų,
be able to escape,
sekdami jų judesius,
checking their movements,
when they sat around a fire,
kai jie susėdo aplink laužą,
from an outside facing window
that was topped with the shards of glass.
kuri buvo padengta stiklo šukėmis.
paklodžių skiautėmis
with the pictures and footage.
ir įrašais.
on SBS Dateline,
paleistas į eterį „SBS Dateline“,
about my situation,
mano situaciją
any other boat to risk my life.
ir rizikuoti savo gyvybe.
and process my case through UNHCR,
Indonezijoje ir kelti bylą per UNHCR,
that I would end up in Indonesia
and unable to work,
ir negalėdamas dirbti,
ieškotojas.
a little bit different with me.
bylą per UNHCR,
my case through UNHCR,
in Australia in May 2013.
2013 metų gegužę.
yra toks laimingas kaip aš.
nežinioje.
with an uncertain fate, in limbo.
Australijoje
and then presented to the people.
demonais ir tada pristatomi žmonėms.
of other Hazaras
ir hazarų istorija
in their countries of origin,
ieškodami prieglobsčio?
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Barat Ali Batoor - PhotojournalistBarat Ali Batoor, an award-winning photojournalist, is a member of the Hazara people. He is based in Australia.
Why you should listen
Barat Ali Batoor is a member of the Hazara ethnic group, once from Afghanistan, then driven into Pakistan. He started work as a photographer in 2002, documenting his people's ancestral home of Afghanistan. His photos have appeared in the Washington Post, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, Stern and many other publications. He held his first solo exhibition in 2007, and has been exhibited around the world.
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