Patrik Baab – he kairangahau tōrangapū, he kairīpoata hoki – i mahi mō ngā kaiwhakapāho tūmatanui mō ngā tau maha,
ā, i tino tata ia ki te ao tūturu o te pakanga i te rāwhiti o Ukaraina, i Āfaghanistānia, me ētahi atu wāhi.
I te ngahuru o te tau 2023, i waenga i ngā pukapuka maha atu, i whakaputaina te pukapuka "On
Both Sides of the Front – My Journeys to Ukraine".
Haere rā – haere ki te pakanga!
Mā ēnei kupu whakaoho, e whāia ana e Patrik Baab kia whakaaro te rangatahi tekau mā ono tau i roto i tana rotarota kare ā-roto.
Ko Baab tētahi tangata e mōhio ana ki tāna e tuhi nei.
Ko Theo, e kīia ana ko ia te tekau mā ono tau te pakeke, he rangatahi noa iho kua whakatau ki te hono atu ki ngā ope tauā.
Nā reira, e māngai ana ia i ētahi atu o tōna reanga e hiahia ana ki te tango i tēnei hikoinga.
Te hē mate: he tūmanako hē tō te nuinga o rātou.
I taka rātou i runga i te mōmona ki ngā rautaki whakauru o te Bundeswehr.
Ka whakamahi mātau rātou i te hiahia nui o ngā rangatahi mō te haerenga whakamīharo me tō rātou hihiri ki te hangarau,
hei whakahihiko i a rātou kia whai mahi i roto i ngā ope tauā.
Hei tāpiri atu ki tēnei, ko te whakatairanga pakanga whakakatakata, kāore hoki e mutu ki ngā kura.
Kei te hua katoa ēnei mea.
E hiahia ana a Theo ki te mahi hei whakatairanga i te rangimārie me te tiaki i tōna whenua, i whakamārama
ai ia ki te kaiwhakaatu pouaka whakaata a Anne Will.
"Kei te mōhio au ki ngā tūraru," i kī ia i runga i tana hōtaka.
Engari, kei te pērā rawa?
E ruarua ana a Patrik Baab ki tērā.
I roto i te āhua rotarota, ka tono ia ki a ia kia haere ki Donetsk.
I reira, ka whakaatu ia ki a ia, i te tino kino, i te tuwhera, i ngā wehi o te pakanga.
He mārama tōna karere:
I roto i ngā pakanga hōia o ngā momo katoa, ehara te take o nāianei i te tiaki i tō ake whenua!
Engari, kei te whakamahia hē ngā hōia e ngā kaiwhakahaere e hiakai ana ki te mana, e aro nui ana ki te whai hua.
Hei whakatutuki i ā rātou whāinga, ka whiua e ō rātou kaiāwhina te one ki ngā karu o te tangata.
Ka whakaoho rātou i te riri, ka akiaki i te hunga kia whawhai ki a rātou anō, ā, kei muri i
ngā tirohanga, ka whakakotahi ō rātou ringa.
Ko te mutunga mō ngā iwi, ko te mate, te whakangaromanga, te mamae me ngā roimata pōuri mutunga kore.
Haere rā – ki te pakanga!
He rotarota whakaihiihi, he whakamihi ki te rangimārie...
Kei te hiahia koe ki te mahi i ngā mea tino hira?
Nā reira, mahia!
Hono atu ki te Hoia Piritene!
Kei te hiahia koe ki te tiaki i ngā uara o te Hauāuru, tō tātou rangatiratanga, pērā i tāu i mahi ai i Afghanistan?
Haere rā!
Kua pakeke ahau. Kāore au e tū i tō huarahi.
Kei te hiahia koe ki te mōhio he aha te tikanga o te pakanga? Nō reira, haere!
Haere ki te pakanga!
Kei te hiahia koe ki te tiaki i tō whenua? Haere rā!
Me kī atu rātou ki a koe kei te haere mai ngā Rūhia, ka tae mai a Putin ki te kūaha āpōpō, mēnā kāore tātou e
aukati i a ia kia kore ai e uru ki Donbass i tēnei rā!
Whakapono ki ngā mea e kīia ana e rātou ki a koe, nā te mea me whakapono nui te hunga kāore e mōhio ana ki ngā mea
maha, ā, ko te hunga kāore e whakapono ana ki ā mātou whakatairanga, kei te mahi mō ā mātou hoariri!
Whakaaetia kia whakaohoa koe ki te whawhai ki ngā Rūsiana!
Haere! Katia ō karu, ā, whakamātau!
Haere ki te whenua pango kua makuku kē e te toto o ngā rau mano o ngā Ukrainiana me ngā Ruhiana.
Haere!
Ka tupu te tarutaru i runga i tō tinana mate hoki.
Haere mai ki Donetsk, kei reira e ako ana ngā tamariki anō i te tikanga o te pakanga,
kāore i tīmata tēnei pakanga i te tau 2022, engari i tīmata kē i te tau 2014, i te Maidan,
i reira i tīmata ai tēnei pakanga me ngā patunga i mahia e te Right Sector, kāore koe e rongo
mō ēnei i te kura, kāore hoki i te whare wānanga.
Haere mai ki te tāone ki ahau, kei reira e mōhio ana te katoa ki te tikanga o te noho i te rohe mate.
I reira ka peke ngā ākonga i raro i ā rātou tēpu i te tangi o te pere mō te wā whakatā, nā te mea e
mataku ana rātou ki te whakatūpato pōtā e whai ake nei,
ā, i te pō, i roto i ō rātou moemoeā, ka kite rātou i a Mate e mahi ana i tana mahi mō tōna ao katoa.
Haere mai ki Mariupol, kei reira i tuhia ki te peita mā i runga i te pakitara o raro: Sdez
Detje! Kei konei tonu ngā tamariki e ora ana!
Engari kua mura katoa te rūma pātaka waina.
Kāore he tangata e noho ana i konei ināianei.
Mēnā e hiahia ana koe ki te mōhio he aha te tikanga o te pakanga, haere mai!
Mēnā e hiahia ana koe ki te haere mai ki te rārangi whakapā, haere mai!
Haere mai, , mēnā e hiahia ana koe ki te titiro ki te hohonu mā roto i ngā wāhi matapihi kua mura,
mēnā kāore koe e taea te whiu wai i te ara paru nā te mea kei reira ngā pu mina pīpī,
mēnā kāore koe e āhei ki te horoi mō ngā rā maha,
i te wā kua kaihia te wāhanga whakamutunga o ngā pūpū, ā, kāore he mea kē hei kai ,
ina ka ngau koe i te paru hinu i puta mai i te pūnaha whakamahana i ngā rūma pōturi me
ētahi atu tāngata paruparu, pōraruraru hoki ,
mēnā he wai paruparu anake tāu hei inu,
mēnā ka pā mai te mate puku ki a koe i tēnei wai paru, kua poke,
ina hiahia koe ki te whē i runga ake i te rīpeka riripiri, ā, ina kāore koe e kitea he tarutaru hei horoi i tō hope.
mēnā ka mau tonu koe i ngā tarau raro kotahi i te rā tuatahi, tuarua, tuatoru, tuawhā, tuarima, ā, ka
kohi haere ngā paru mārō tawhito ki roto i a rātou,
ina takoto koe ki te oneone i te pō, i roto i tō paraka hōia kua maku, me te ina pāngia koe e te mate hukapapa
i te hotoke, i runga i tētahi moenga paku i roto i tētahi whare whakamarumaru makariri rawa,
ina ka pākia tō kākahu kakara kino e ngā pūpū me ngā pūpū toto,
ina kai ana ngā pepeke maha rawa atu i tō kiri, ina ka pā ki a koe te mate pūpū,
Ina ka huri te kiri o ō waewae ki te kikorangi-parauri, ā, ka āta whakapōrearea i ō waewae i te paru makariri, makuku
e tū ana koe tae noa ki ō puku waewae, rā i muri i te rā,
i te wā e takoto ana he pūrua ngā waewae parekura kua tapahia, e toto ana, i roto i te oneone,
i te wā e ngau ana ngā kiore i ngā tūpāpaku
ā, ka kai ngā kōrō i ngā karu me ngā puku o te hunga mate ,
ina rongo koe i te pīpī a ngā āpiha,
i a rātou e whai ana i a koe me tētahi pisto kua whakatuwheratia, te maihao kei runga i te pūwhakarewa, piki
ake i te arawhata, puta atu i te rua pakanga ki roto i te ahi pū mīhini, ki ngā papa pahū,
ina rere mai ngā pūrewa ki a koe i roto i tētahi kohinga,
Kaore koe e moe i te pō nā te mea kei mau ngā tāngata whara i roto i te aho taru, ā, e tangi ana, e karanga ana ki ā rātou whaea,
Ina e wiri ana koe i runga i tētahi whāriki paru i te hōhipera, ā, e ngari ana tō waewae,
ā, e hiahia ana koe ki te tōpuki i taua wāhi,
engari kāore he waewae ināianei nā te mea kua tapahia tō waewae
i te wā ko te mamae wairua anake e whakamahara ana ki a koe i tō waewae i whai koe i mua , , ināianei he peka
waewae anake kua whakatūhia ki roto i tētahi pāreti toto-kapi
ina mau ngā mīhini pahū ki tō waea pūkoro, ā, ka tae atu ki tō whāinga mā te āhua makariri,
ina ko te konukawha rewa anake o tō parepare, ina ka mura koe i roto i tētahi pōro ahi i te 1,400 tohu,
, ka mōhio koe he aha te tikanga o te pakanga.
Nō reira, haere!
Kia rongo koe i te reka o te rangatiratanga me te haerenga whakamīharo!
Haere, kia toa koe!
Haere, ina piri tahi te mana me ngā pāpāho pēnei i te kī.
Homai tō oranga mō te hunga i tukuna koe ki reira, engari kaua koe e haere ki reira anō!
Kaua e aroha ki a koe anō! Haere!
Haere ki tō mate mō te hunga e tuku kōrero populist ana i ngā hōtaka kōrero pouaka whakaata, e noho ana ki muri i ngā rārangi,
i roto rānei i ā rātou pūkere, ā, ka whakanoho i ā rātou ake tamariki ki runga i te rererangi whakamutunga ki
tāwāhi, he tino tautoko i te whakawhiti moana-nui-a-Kiwa rātou.
Haere! Mēnā ka taka koe, ka piki te mākete hea! Nō reira, haere!
Engari tuatahi titiro ki a rātou, e noho ana i muri i ā rātou tēpu i roto i ā rātou tari
whakatika, e korikori ana i ā rātou kapu kawhe.
ko ngā waha-nui kāore i tuku i ā rātou ake tamariki ki ngā rua pakanga, titiro pai ki a rātou,
Ko ngā kaitākaro petipeti me ngā kaitākaro kēmu anga i roto i te kāwanatanga e hiahia ana ki te tuku i a
Taurus, , engari ka whēkau rātou i te pahū tuatahi o te pū.
Tirohia rātou, ngā rangatira parekura e pupuhi ana i ngā koroka kapoka wī, i te wā e toto ana ētahi ki runga i ā rātou patu.
Tirohia āta ēnei.
Me titiro noa koe ki te kanohi o tēnei tāne.