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KASPARS GOBA
Lives in Riga and Cesis, Latvia
Syndrome of Caucasus
photographs 1-7 (3 from them to Chechnya, 4 for the world tour)
20 x 30 cm
2000/2006

"The first of my longer trips to Russia in the middle of nineties coincided with the beginning of the Chechen war. At the time, traveling through numerous Siberian towns and villages I was surprised by the amount of packmen in the railway stations. Many of them were peddlers who carried around goods, but increasingly, I noticed more and more people who moved around with their whole families and children. "The result of countless military conflicts," explained to me a philology student. He had spent his Russian military service in Trans-Dniestr region, in the very centre of first post-soviet military conflicts.

Later, at the turn of millennium, I met war refugees all over the region, in the streets of Baku and Tiflis. The situation has not improved till this very day. Today, several thousand Chechen refugees live in the Pankis valley in Georgia, at the border with Chechnya. They are people who have deserted their homes under blasts of artillery explosions and never ceasing machine-gun fire. It is a blind old man who has been crossing a dangerous mountain-pass on foot for three days, and probably will spend his last days in Georgia, on the other side of mountain range. They are exhausted mothers who have left their dead babies in the snow.

Children, who have survived, seeing only violence and violent solutions to conflicts, grow up in a foreign land with a single thought on their minds - to return and revenge, some day. Former doctor of Grozny hospital works in the field, to make a living for herself and her fatherless children.

Every week, a United Nations aid truck brings food and medical supplies. An entire generation has grown up in an atmosphere of ethnic conflicts and there is no solution in sight. Many thousands of people live outside their native countries - people who have been expelled from their homes, people who hate and are ready to kill other people, people without future and children without childhood."

Kaspars Goba







 

 

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