Mate ka moris ukun rasik an lyrics

Artist  : Propaghandi 
Song : Mate ka moris ukun rasik an
 
Dickheads shit-talk huddled and single-file.
first-world frat-boys and prairie skinheads who
will never walk a mile or mourn a murdered friend
in this tiny woman’s shoes. drink up and mumble
you
Se. I’m still humbled by it all: around the same
time that I was riding with no hands, busting
windows and getting busy behind the sportsplex
(with labonte’s older sister decked out in her
speed
Bella was flinching from the sting of a depo
proveran "family planning", her own
pearl harbour and a holocaust spanning 25 years
to the rest of her life. a prison my country
underwrote
Aradise. and in the shadows of santa cruz, she
crossed her fingers behind her back. built
suharto a trojan horse and lay still till the
motherfucker sent her north where as night fell
she emerge
H a box under her arm that held her pledge of
allegiance and her uniform. she laid it at the
gates of the general’s embassy and her whisper
echoed into dawn as she disappeared:

The truth will set my people free.

This song was inspired by the real-life story of
bella gahlos. we met her in 1997 at an east timor
alert network benefit in winnipeg. we are humbled
to have crossed paths with her. this is her s
­

Bella gahlos is one of three east timorese who
have defected to canada. she was only three years
old when indonesia invaded her country. her two
young brothers were beaten to death and her
fathe
Thrown into jail when the indonesian military
entered her home in january 1976. after the dili
massacre, her older brother was jailed and
brutally tortured for having made a "free
east tim
Ot; t-shirt worn by some of the demonstrators.

Although she focused on her personal experience
as a young survivor of the indonesian occupation,
bella also addressed u.s. complicity in the
invasion and occupation of east timor and the
united
Es government’s continuing military and economic
support for the brutal suharto regime.

In her talks, bella often recounted her
experience with indonesia’s forced sterilization
of timorese women and girls. she was only
thirteen years old when the military came to her
school and ask
L the young women to line up after forcing the
boys to leave the room.

"they told us we needed to be injected to
stay healthy," she explained. "i was
frightened; I didn’t trust them. five of them had
to hold me down, and they had a very hard time.
th
Ey came to my home the same week and injected me
again."

Much later, with the help of bishop belo, she
discovered that she and her classmates had been
injected with depo-provera (a birth control
drug).

Bella also spoke of living under a constant fear
of being raped: "women in east timor are
raped all the time by the military. they just
come into your home and force you."

Bella began to work with the underground
resistance in 1989, helping to plan
demonstrations and convincing other women to take
an active role in the movement. in 1991, bella
helped to organize t
Aceful march to the santa cruz cemetery in dili.
when the indonesian military opened fire on the
demonstration, bella managed to get herself and
her pregnant aunt over the high cemetery walls
to
Ty. more than 250 of her friends were not so
lucky, being brutally killed in the massacre.

In the aftermath of the massacre bella joined the
indonesian military youth corps to mask her
involvement in the demonstration. for three years
the indonesian authorities trained her to fight
ag
Her own people. during this time, bella secretly
used her army salary to help the resistance
movement.

In 1994, after months of interrogation and
instruction, the indonesian government selected
bella to represent east timorese youth in the
canada world youth program. she was well trained
to speak
He canadian media and to portray suharto’s
propaganda machine’s version of a
"typical" young timorese _ educated,
successful, and pro-integration.

Bella defected after her arrival in canada with
the help of her uncle, constâncio pinto,
who had escaped east timor shortly after the dili
massacre. since then, bella has been perfecti
R english and touring canada to speak for her
country’s freedom. to learn more or to join her
struggle, visit www.etan.ca