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I Was there in Kosovo not long
ago to film the actreese Angelina Jolie's film I think its now
called " a place in time", I was asked by her To capture the once
bombed and destroyed Roma family and their orphanage children, it
was so sad when I think back the images of those children's life
there right now, it was extreemly dangerous and hard experience
that I have ever had besides my serves as a little soldier in
Tibet. I was in Kosovo at first living with the UN based people
under the protection of the machine guns, one night I was walking
with this young guy who works for the UN, we were away from the
base, just while we were crossing the bridge, we Suddenly hear loud
gun shots near by, we were terrified, the bridge in which is what
connected the north and the south, the young UN guy said: " Bailing
we could get shot Right now, because We are visible and walking on
the bridge we are not supposed to cross! The north and the south
people hate each other, I mean they will shoot each other if you
cross to the other side." I was going to run, " No run bailing !"
Suddenly we stoped by 5 French soldiers out of no where they
emerged with machine guns in their hands, I was so scared, but we
were Lucky they did not shoot us only took my camera away and
Shouted at us in Franch, and ordered us to go back, at that time I
felt my whole body was on a red high Feaver and I was about to have
a heart attack.
One time just before lunch, we
were transporting this lady from the south to the north for a
meeting for the UN and she was so scared and she coverd herself
from the toe to head and she was hiding and lying on the floor in
our Van when we were Crossing the bridge, she was keep
saying:<BR><BR>" They Are going to shoot me! They are
going to shoot me!!!"
At that moment when the soldiers
stoped our Van, our hearts were all up to our throats, because by
illegal transporting someone from the different side we could All
get killed and die at that moment. On the bridge there are French
soldiers American soldiers, at one time they had 75 different
country's army soldiers there on the bridge, you never know who is
who and who is going to Do what. it was so scary when the bullets
fly above my head, it was so scary When this lady lying by my feet
and could get us all killed if she made any
noise.
I went to all the little towns
and cities there in Kosovo including Mitrovica and more along the
beautiful mountain ranges , I have noticed, even the nature there
is More quite than in the rest of the World, air is so tight there,
I felt like if I Just light a match then it will set fire in the
entire City, sad souls flying in the air, you can see the hunger
the poverty and the terrified fear through the eyes of the local
people, and also reflacted in those innocent orphanage children's
eyes like a sad Painting. it was so so sad and hopeless...... and
they all have nothing to hold on to!
"I am so glad that you are doing
this with me, where do you want to go Bailing?" Angelina asked
me:
" Send me to the most dangerous
place that no nobody wants to go." I replayed.
When we decided I am going to
Kosovo, she called Me:
"Bailing you have no idea, just
the fact that you are there alone is so powerful for people to
see."
The fact is that I will do
anything for her.
The night I arrived I have lost
my luggage at the airport and that was it in the darkneas of the
cold windy night,I entred the lonely land of Kosovo. I wonderd on
the streets for about 2 weeks and talked to the local people and
had nightmares all the nights when I left the UN base and slept in
different small local hotel and motle rooms, I was the only girl
there.
I had a little local love afair
with a handsome young man there, I met him in a club where I was
not supposed to be in, I talked my way through the door because I
was so curious and want to feel the local life, but all I saw was
the hungry eyes of the local men, I did not find any body looked
Like me there, not at all, just when I suddenly feel the danger,
just when all the local hungry men's eyes in the club all come to
me, he rescued me, for some reason I felt his protection for me
from the locals. I left him in the end with out him knowing that
was our last breakfast together, I did not say good bye to him
because I couldn't. He rushed to the train station but could not
get in, I saw his sad and angry face fade away just like in
movies.
But I will never forget the fear
and the sadness and the light of hope is that strongly inked in a
man's eyes and also that vulnerable like the hopeless sunset, and
it is also the same in this 95 years old grandmother's deep wounded
eyes, how can I ever forget her, her tears and her warm heart and
her lonely ending life and the smoke that sweetly slowly florting
like a Ghost's dance skirt from the coffee she made for
me.
I was walking on the street after
the sunset one evening in the cold, white snow just landed like the
soft music from above, I saw there stands this little tiny old lady
alone in the lost intersetion, she looked at me, for some reason my
heart just went to her, she hold my left hand so tight as if I was
her long lost grand daughter, she took me to her little half opend
room on the side walk of the street, she had nothing there and she
was trying to make me a cup of coffee, I helped her, then we set on
her little bed and she once again hold my left hand so tight and
cried all the way while she was telling me her story and how sad it
is that her family was divided forever and she has no home and
nobody left to look after her.....
Please have no war in Kosoco! No
war anywhere!!! Because people's life is already in deep danger and
sorrow!