· 21 octobre
21/10/2013 17:09
StudentMK Uzb
Дорогая Лара Фабиан,
Вы приезжаете в Ташкент. Я так мечтаю попасть на Ваш концерт, но не смогу
по двум причинам...
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Dear Lara Fabian
I heard that you
are coming to Tashkent. I dream of being able to make it to your concert, but I cannot for two reasons: First, I am a student,
studying in my first year of the University. Like many of your
fans, I am now working in the cotton fields. Every day I have to
collect 70 kg of cotton. Per 1 kg of cotton we should be paid the sum
of 117 Soums (local currency) [$0.06 U.S. dollars], but we do not
get this money directly paid to us. For each day of food
that we are given, we have to pay 3,200 Soums [USD $1.50]. At the end of
the harvest campaign, we will end up owing money to the state for the
expenses of transportation, food and accommodations to have us work in the cotton
fields. Food products that are supplied to us are mostly long past
the use-by date. I tried to take a picture of the food that we are given,
but our teachers told me off severely for that, and now
they are threatening me with expulsion from the university. The
second reason why I will never be able to buy a ticket to
your concert is that I will not have enough money for it. The number
of unemployed people in the country is catastrophic. Take for example
the city I live in, the only solvent business in town is the cooking
oil extraction plant. The other plants and factories closed down, because
there is no conversion of the Uzbek national currency and business are not
able to buy the necessary raw materials for the production of their
products.
I enjoyed watching
your last concert of «Mademoiselle Zhivago" on cable television. I
loved it. I wish you every success.
I
asked the human rights activists to pass on my letter to
you. They know my real name. But, unfortunately, I
cannot sign my letter under my real name, because if I do
so, I will definitely be dismissed from the University and may
even go to jail, like my neighbor, who was reading
the web sites of the political opposition on the
Internet. There are thousands of political prisoners in
Uzbekistan. I thought that you might want to know who
your real fans are and why they cannot come to your concert,
that is why I decided to write you this letter.
I hope that you are
not only a very good singer, but also a very good person too. When you are in
Uzbekistan, please ask Ms. Gulnara Karimova and her father President Karimov to
end the use of forced labour in the cotton fields.
Your fan,
Madamin
