Yestanbelakwa





From: Eagle_wng  (Original Message) Sent: 2/9/2008 2:49 AM





06-February-2008

“The Black Eagle” sent us the translation from the Adiga to the English Languages, of the famous “Yestanbelakwa” which reminds of the Circassian Genocide memories that Circassians were subjected to by the Russian Tsarist State, in the 19th Century:







Yestanbelakwa 


Listen People, Listen Every One!!


The speaker is the old and Great Mountains of the Caucasus.


I want to remind you with one of worst tragedies of all times.


 


That day I went toward the the sea port!


Before I reached there I met a horseman…


When I saw the tears on the horseman’s beard, who barely saluted me,


I got mad, “This is not a thing men do”, I shouted on the young guy,


“Your Tears are only one step ahead”! The horseman said, and then he went away.


That step is waiting for me…


I got to a Cave.


The dead in the Cave where about Fifty.


If you count all the dead and the dying laying there, they were about five hundred…


A mother with open eyes gave the sole, while trying to breastfeed her baby!!


The baby was crying of hunger and calling his mother to breastfeed him, he was laid next to his mother’s chest, which he used to…


That unlucky born baby, was crying, dying of hunger.


His cry made the hearts of the dying laid there people, hurt more and more…


In a while the baby stopped crying, he could barely open his little eyes, and he was dead…


I took my “Shakwa” “Traditional Circassian Felt cloak” and made it a coffin for the mother and her son.


As the horseman said, I saw my tears on my Shakwa.


There I stood and shouted out with prayers…


Those who can hear me!!!!


Those who can help in this crisis??


All those who left Motherland suffered from Plague…


The most of those who left, either were lost in the sea or died of diseases and eaten by worms and insects!


They were lost in strange mountains and valleys; they were settled and left there to die…


Then you swear that you love our people, you will be happy if our mountaineers survive…


If that was true, why the ones who can’t survive are lost?


Our women were gathered and chained, next to Beys fountains whose bodies are valueless, why did you accept the injustice!!??


You saw everything with your eyes, why didn’t you bother to mention or write anything about it!?


Once you say you are the people of Shameel,


Once you say you were sent by Caliph,


Once you say you were sent by God,


Where do you want to take us with your lies??!!


Beasts, is what you do in life…


I wonder people like you, in what (Xabza) way should be buried?


On your tomb a big sign with snake head!!


When you dig the ground to put the tomb-sign, the ground would rejects that!


Your tombs describe what you are doing..


You come from devils’ origin…


Fire and earth will look the same, only pains in your hill!


All of what you really deserve, you become fodder for the swamp snakes??!!


Peoples’ curse will finish you; wickedness will end the wickedness…


Those who stayed and stalled with pains, your future is bless

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