| Jan
Bontje keeps alive
all those people who were killed by oppressors of all kind.
Jan Bontje
namens "TRIAS"
e-mail: trias@janbontje.nl
e-mail: janbontje_triaspolitica@hetnet.nl
website "Trias": http://janbontje.tripod.com/triaspolitica/
shocking it is learn so much about the oppression
of the Amazigh people.
Another reason I write is the following: in 1998, when I read
in the newspapers in my country (the Netherlands) that Matoub
was killed, I wrote a song - in Dutch - about Victor Jara (a
Chilean singer killed during the fascist coup d'etat in 1973)
and Matoub... still not realising he was (matoub) much more
famous and important for the struggle of his people than I thought.
At that time I had no 'internet'. Only last year I completed
the song and added the names of tens of others also killed for
their belief, or their ideas or their race or their colour....
Meanwhile 'TRIAS' - a literary/musical trio of wich I am the
leader - is performing this song and today for example and next
week we will also perform it on stage in a 'literray cafe'.
A choir in my hometown has included the song in its repertoire.
With this song I hope to keep alive all those people who were
killed by oppressors of all kind.
Here the part of the song in which Matoub is mentioned:
Parlando:
Henk Sneevliet
Hans en Sophie Scholl
Jan Campert
Jo de Haas
Joe Hill
Johannes Post
Joop Westerweel
José Marti
Julius Rosenberg
Ethel Rosenberg
In Berberland werd Matoub vermoord - in Berbercountry they killed
Matoub
"Zijn liederen leiden af van de Leer" "His songs
lead astray from the Doctrine"
Verblinde fanaten vrezen het woord blinded fanatics fear free
speech
Dus folteren zij mensen keer op keer therefore they torture
again and again
refrein: chorus:
Ze hebben
gelijk, ze hebben gelijk: they are right, they are right"
Denken ontmaskert en zingen maakt vrij (2 x) thinking will unmask
them and singing will make us free
parlando:
Karl Liebknecht
Koos Koster
Mahatma Gandhi
Martin Luther King
Matoub
Nicola Sacco
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
(c) Lyrics: Jan
Bontje, the Netherlands
(c) Music: Frans Lodewijk & Carlos Breton, the Netherlands
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