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Wednesday 16 September 2015

The Stations of the Forced Wanderer (Nâzim Hikmet Ran: 20 September 1945)

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Hungarian border police stand guard opposite refugees standing behind a fence at the Hungarian border with Serbia near the town of Horgos on September 16, 2015. Europe's 20-year passport-free Schengen zone appeared to be a risk of crumbling with Germany boosting border controls on parts of its frontier with France as migrants desperate to find a way around Hungary's border fence began crossing into Croatia. With a string of EU countries tightened frontier controls in the face of the unprecedented human influx, the cherished principle of free movement across borders -- a pillar of the European project -- seemed in grave jeopardy

Hungarian border police stand guard opposite refugees standing behind a fence at the Hungarian border with Serbia near the town of Horgos on Wednesday: photo by Armend Nimani/AFP, 16 September 2015


Nâzim Hikmet Ran
: 20 September 1945

At this late hour
in this autumn night
I am full of your words;
eternal as time and matter
naked as an eye,
heavy as a hand
and gleaming as stars
your words.

 
Your words came to me,
they were of your heart, of your head, of your flesh.
Your words brought you,
they were: mother,
they were: woman
and they were comrade...
They were sad, painful, joyful, hopeful, heroic,
your words were human...

 
Nâzim Hikmet Ran (b. Salonica, 15 January 1902 - d. Moscow, 3 June 1963): 20 September 1945, translated by Fuat Engin

 

A refugee stands in a field at the Hungarian border with Serbia near the town of Horgos. Photo @armend_nimani: image via Stéphane Arnaud @StephaneArnaud, 16 September 2015


Hungarian border police stand guard next to a refugee woman behind a fence at the border with Serbia. @AFP @AFPphoto: image via Stéphane Arnaud @AntAFP, 16 September 2015

While you were waiting at the gate



Refugees stand behind a fence at the Hungarian border with Serbia, near Horgos. #AFP @armend_nimani
: image via Aurelia BAILLY  AureliaBAILLY, 16 September 2015

 
Refugees stand behind a fence at the Hungarian border with Serbia, near Horgos. #AFP @armend_nimani: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 16 September 2015
 
 
Refugees stand behind a fence at the Hungarian border with Serbia, near Horgos. #AFP @armend_nimani: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 16 September 2015

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Refugees stand behind a fence at the Hungarian border with Serbia, near Horgos. Photo @armend_nimani
: image via Stéphane Arnaud @StephaneArnaud, 16 September 2015

At the Horgos Station



Drone shot of #Horgos crossing between #Hungary & #Serbia. #Refugees prevented from entering are camping on motorway: image via Oliver Varney @Oliver Varney, 16 September 2015


Desperate scenes on the border between #Serbia & #Hungary as #refugees crowd Hungarian fence and beg to be let in: image via Oliver Varney @Oliver Varney, 16 September 2015  Röszke, Csongrad
 

"Please let us through, my children are sick" Iraqi lady pleads with Hungarian police she can see through gap: image via Oliver Varney @OliverVarney, 16 September 2015

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Tear gas and water cannon being fired at #refugees at #Horgos crossing: image via Oliver Varney @OliverVarney, 16 September 2015


Drone shot of #Horgos crossing on #Serbia #Hungary
border as clashes start between #refugees and #Hungarian police: image via Oliver Varney @Oliver Varney, 16 September 2015


Water cannon and tear gas fired as migrants face police at Hungary-Serbia border #Horgos #Roszke: image via euronews Verified account @euronews, 16 September 2015
 

Water cannon and tear gas fired as migrants face police at Hungary-Serbia border #Horgos #Roszke: image via euronews Verified account @euronews, 16 September 2015


Water cannon and tear gas fired as migrants face police at Hungary-Serbia border #Horgos #Roszke: image via euronews Verified account @euronews, 16 September 2015


#Hungary police fire tear gas at migrants at Serbia border. Photo @armend_nimani: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 16 September 2015
 

@AFP photo: A refugee faces Hungarian police water cannons during clashes at the border near #Horgos. #refugees: image via Alejandro Alvarez @aletweetsnews, 16 September 2015
 
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 Confrontation escalates between migrants, Hungarian riot police at border crossing with Serbia: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 16 September 2015


Water cannon and tear gas fired as migrants face police at Hungary-Serbia border #Horgos #Roszke: image via euronews Verified account @euronews, 16 September 2015

  
Tear gas & water cannon attack by Hungarian police on refugees at #Roszke / #Horgos crossing: image via Revolution News @NewsRevo, 16 September 2015

Groups of young men still near #Horgos border but noticeably calmer now since Serbian police went to fence: image via Oliver Varney @Oliver Varney, 16 September 2015

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The view from a disused Serbian watchtower where Hungary's border fence ends, few miles from #Horgos. @5News: image via Peter Lane @peterlane5news, 16 September 2015

While you were sleeping
 

BMW chief executive Harald Krueger fainted Tuesday during a press briefing at the IAA auto show in Frankfurt, Germany: image via Agence France-Presse @AFP, 15 September 2015
 
BMW chief executive Harald Krueger fainted Tuesday during a press briefing at the IAA auto show in Frankfurt, Germany: image via Agence France-Presse @AFP, 15 September 2015
 
BMW chief executive Harald Krueger fainted Tuesday during a press briefing at the IAA auto show in Frankfurt, Germany: image via Agence France-Presse @AFP, 15 September 2015

BMW CEO Krueger is helped after he collapsed at a presentation during the media day at the Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt...BMW CEO Harald Krueger (C) is helped after he collapsed at a presentation during the media day at the Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt, Germany, September 15, 2015.
BMW CEO Harald Krueger is helped after he collapsed at a presentation during the media day at the Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt, Germany
: photo by Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters, 15 September 2015

The Stations of the Forced Wanderers



#Austria updt: Train circulation to #Germany halted. 100s of #refugees cross by foot #salzburg bridge. Via @Chrislows image via José Miguel Sardo @jmsardo, 16 September 2015



#Austria updt: Train circulation to #Germany halted. 100s of #refugees cross by foot #salzburg bridge. Via @Chrislows image via José Miguel Sardo @jmsardo, 16 September 2015

 A long walk along a dirt track in quiet cornfield. More & more people heading to #Croatia via #Serbia #refugeecrisis: image via lyse doucet @bbclysedoucet, 16 September 2015



 #Croatia +: "Police capture #refugees crossing the border through cornfields and take them to #Tovarnik" @VKranic: image via José Miguel Sardo @jmsardo, 16 September 2015

 A steady stream of people making trek though cornfields NW #Serbia towards #Croatia #refugeecrisis #migantcrisis: image via lyse doucet @bbclysedoucet, 16 September 2015
 

 First migrants enter Croatia after Hungary seals border: image via Agence France-Presse @AFP, 16 September 2015

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 First refugees head for #Croatia #SyrianRefugees: image via Cold War 2.0 @coldwar20_en, 16 September 2015
 
Migrants Arrive In Hungary As Fears Grow Over Possible Border Closures
Migrants queue to board buses bound for Vienna from Hegyshalom holding centre on the Austrian border after Hungarian authorities closed the open railway track crossing on Tuesday: photo by Jeff J Mitchell via FT Photo Diary, 24 September 2015
 

As darkness falls, people still keep arriving.  #Serbia #Croatia border
: image via lyse doucet @bbclysedoucet, 16 September 2015

1 comment:

Sandra said...

to be full of someone else´s words can be almost a mystical experience...the poet has told it so well!