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1 | ‘Eat My S***, Mother****ers!': A Newly-Elected Councillor Causes a Stir in Tajikistan | ‘Hano Ny ***Ako Ry Mp***Reny!': Niteraka Resabe Tao Tajikistan Ilay Mpanolotsaina Voafidy Vao Haingana |
2 | Tajikistan has become a lot less Russified in over twenty years of independence. | Tsy hita loatra intsony ny nanerana ho Rosiana an'i Tajikistan tao anatin'ny roapolo taona mahery nahazoana ny fahaleovantena. |
3 | A stamp celebrating twenty years of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic. | Hajia mankalaza ny faha-roapolo taonan'ny Repoblika Sosialista Sovietika Tajik. |
4 | Taken from the dic.academic.ru archive. | Nalaina tao amin'ny tahirin-kevitry ny dic.academic.ru. |
5 | Gulnora Amirshoeva, a freshly-elected member of the city council in Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe and a prominent Russian-speaking journalist, recently profaned the state language, Tajik, by using it to tell Tajik-speaking Facebook users “motherf**ers, eat my s***.” | Vao haingana teo i Gulnora Amirshoeva, mpikambana voafidy vao haingana tao amin'ny filankevitry ny tanàna tao an-drenivohitr'i Tajikistan, Dushanbe sady mpanoratra gazety malaza miteny Rosiana no nanimbazimba ny fitenim-panjakana, Tajik, tamin'ny fampiasana ity teny ity tamin'ny mpisera Facebook miteny Tajik “hano ny ***ko ry ***reny…. ”. |
6 | In a nation that was part of both the Russian empire and the Soviet Union, but where most people speak a variety of Farsi called Tajik as their first language, Amirshoeva's comment has gone off like a bomb. | Ao amin'ny firenena izay tao anatin'ny fanjakana Rosiana sy Firaisana Sovietika, izay miteny amin'ny karazana fiteny Farsi antsoina hoe Tajik ho fiteny voalohan'ireo ankamaroan'ny olona, nivoaka tahaka ny baomba ny lahatsoratr'i Amirshoeva . |
7 | Amirshoeva, Editor-in-Chief of the Vecherniy Dushanbe newspaper, became a member of the city council in elections on March 1. Campaigning for the ruling People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan (PDPT), she won the seat with 79.6 percent of the vote. | Lasa mpikambana ao amin'ny filankevitry ny tanàna tamin'ny fifidianana tamin'ny 1 Martsa i Amirshoeva, Lehiben'ny Tonian-dahatsoratra ao amin'ny gazety Vecherniy Dushanbe. Tamin'ny nanaovany fampielezan-kevitra hoan'ny antokon'ny fitondrana Antoko Demaokratikam-bahoaka ao Tajikistan (PDPT), azony tamin'ny 79.6 isan-jaton'ny vato ny toerana . |
8 | Given the number of Tajik-speaking opposition candidates that had failed the mandatory test in the country's state language while competing for the national parliament, many questioned how Amirshoeva, known for preferring Russian, the country's ‘language of inter-ethnic communication', had not had to sit one to become a city representative. | Noho ny fahitana ny isan'ireo kandida mpanohitra miteny Tajik, izay tsy nahomby tamin'ny fitsapa-pahaizana tsy maintsy natao tamin'ny fitenim-panjakana ofisialy ao amin'ny firenena, maro ireo nanontany ny fomba nahombiazan'i Amirshoeva, izay malaza fa mirona kokoa amin'ny [teny] Rosiana, teny fifandraisan'ny samy foko ao amin'ny firenena. |
9 | As a response to this criticism, Gulnora Amirshoeva commented on Facebook (mostly in Russian with expletives in Tajik): | Ho valin'izany tsikera izany, naneho hevitra tao amin'ny Facebook (amin'ny teny Rosiana ny ankamaroany saingy ahitana ompa na teny ratsy amin'ny teny Tajik) i Gulnora Amirshoeva: |
10 | So, the whole of Tajik-speaking Facebook has been discussing my personality for the last week, saying I should not be a deputy because I do not know the language. | Araka izany, miresaka ny momba ahy tamin'iny herinandro lasa iny ny Facebook rehetra miteny tajik, milaza fa tsy tokony ho solombavambahoaka aho satria tsy mahay ny fiteny. |
11 | I would like to tell them to shove it in that very same language by saying: eat my s***, motherf**ers! | Tiako ny milaza amin'izy ireo ny hihiaka tahaka izao hoe : hano ny ***ko ry mp***reny! |
12 | Amirshoeva's provocative call to eat her excrement led to a spike in activity among Tajik-speaking Facebook users. | Nitarika hatezerana teo amin'ireo mpisera Facebook miteny Tajik ny antso feno fihantsiana avy amin'i Amirshoeva mba hihinana ny malotony. |
13 | Unsurprisingly most comments were condemnatory. | Tsy mahagaga raha nanameloka ny ankamaroan'ny fanehoan-kevitra ny mpiserasera. |
14 | Zavqibek Saidamini, a Tajik journalist, posted on Facebook that Amirshoeva had insulted the language: | Zavqibek Saidamini, mpanoratra gazety Tajik nanoratra tao amin'ny Facebook fa nanevateva ny teny i Amirshoeva: |
15 | She has totally insulted the Tajik language in her comment! | Nanevateva tanteraka ny teny Tajik tamin'ny fanehoan-keviny i Amirshoeva! |
16 | As if this ‘lady' were living in a Russian city and discussing Tajiks and Tajik-speaking people! | Satria nipetraka tao an-tanàna Rosiana ity ramatoa ity ary mifanakalo hevitra amin'ny mponina Tajik sy olona miteny Tajik! |
17 | I want to ask those who accepted the Tajik language test from this representative: How did she pass the test, or do municipal representatives not take the test? | Te-hanontany an'ireo izay nanaiky ny fitsapana tamin'ny teny Tajik nataon'ity solontena ity aho hoe: Ahoana no nahafahany tamin'ny fitsapana, sa tsy manao fitsapa-pahaizana ireo solontenan'ny monisipaly? |
18 | After that, I would like to ask what this ‘representative of the people' with this manner of speaking, can do for her voters, who might all be, as she says, ‘Tajik-speaking'? | Aorian'izany, te hanontany aho hoe inona no mba azon'ity solontenam-bahoaka ity atao amin'ireo mpifidiny, izay mety ho ‘miteny Tajik' daholo araka ny fiteniny manoloana ny fomba fiteniny? |
19 | Nosirjon Ma'murzoda wrote: | Nosirjon Ma'murzoda nanoratra hoe: |
20 | I am always in solidarity with another journalist. | Matetika aho miray hina amin'ny mpanoratra gazety hafa. |
21 | However, getting elected as a representative of people, Amirshoeva becomes a public person. | Na dia izany aza, rehefa voafidy ho solontenam-bahoaka, dia manjary olom-bahoaka i Amirshoeva. |
22 | If I was participating in that vote, I would definitely complain about this representative. | Raha nandray anjara tamin'izany fifidianana izany aho, dia tena hitaraina mikasika ity solontena ity. |
23 | A high culture of communication and knowledge of state language are very important norms. | Fenitra tena lehibe indrindra ny fahalalàna kolontsaim-pifandraisana sy ny fahaizana tsara ny tenim-panjakana. |
24 | Her comment shows her contempt for the language. | Mampiseho fanaovany tsinontsinona ny fiteny ny fanehoa-keviny. |
25 | A group of Tajik-speaking Facebookers wrote a complaint to the ImruzNews local newspaper asking Amirshoeva to apologise in front of the Tajik nation. | Nanoratra fitarainana tao amin'ny gazety ao an-toerana ImruzNews ireo mpisera Facebook miteny Tajik nitaky an'i Amirshoeva mba hiala tsiny eo anoloan'ny firenena Tajik. |
26 | However, Amirshoeva did not stop there. She responded: | Na izany aza, tsy nijanona hatreo i Amirshoeva, namaly izy hoe: |
27 | All of the inadequates on Tajik Facebook are following me, and I don't give a hell)))) If I blink the wrong way, they will discuss it for two more months, saying what is allowed for a councillor and what is not. | Manaraka ahy avokoa ireo tsy sahaza (tsy tokony hanaraka ahy) ao amin'ny Facebook Tajik, ary tsy omeko afobe)))) Raha mibiloka amin'ny lalan-dratsy aho, hiresaka momba izany mandritra ny roa volana mahery izy ireo, hilaza hoe inona no azo atao sy tsy azo ataon'ny mpanolotsaina. |
28 | ))) So relax. | ))) Ka raiso mora. |
29 | Gulnora Amirshoeva is a controversial figure in the mostly-Muslim nation. | Olo-malaza mampiteraka adihevitra ao amin'ny firenena maro Miozolomana i Gulnora Amirshoeva. |
30 | She is also known for condemning the participation of state officials in the Jum'a Prayers (a compulsory prayer for Sunni Muslims every Friday afternoon), which also earned her the wrath of Facebook users and may have contributed to the scrutiny she received after winning her election to the Dushanbe council. | |
31 | It is not the first time a Tajik journalist has used a word for human waste to devastating effect. Olga Tutubalina, a journalist from Asia-Plus news agency, famously called Tajikistan's pro-government intelligentsia govno, or ‘shit' last year and was promptly and successfully sued by the same intelligentsia for insulting their ‘honour'. | Fantatra tamin'ny fanamelohany ny fandraisana anjaran'ireo manampahefam-panjakana tamin'ny Vavaka isan-Jomà (vavaka tsy maintsy atrehin'ny Miozolomana Sonita isaky ny zoma tolakandro) ihany koa izy, izay niteraka fahatezeran'ireo mpampiasa Facebook taminy ihany koa izany ary mety nahatonga ny fanaraha-maso azy taorian'ny fandreseny tamin'ny fifidianana tao amin'ny filankevitr'i Dushanbe. |
32 | Tutubalina was paraphrasing bolshevik Vladimir Lenin, who wrote in a letter to writer Maxim Gorky: “The intelligentsia - is not the brain of the nation, it is her s***.” *** | |
33 | Every Facebook comment has two sides | |
34 | Shortly after this article was published, a Tajik Facebook user, who knows Amirshoeva and wished to remain anonymous contacted Global Voices to say: | |
35 | Fantastic article about Amirshoeva! I think the author needs to make one slight correction though. | Tsy vao sambany no nisy mpanoratra gazety Tajik nampiasa teny dikin'olombelona ka nandravarava. |
36 | The article suggests that Amirshoeva passed the Tajik language exam while some other candidates didn't. | |
37 | In reality, she did not have to sit the exam at all. | |
38 | The exam is a must only for those who seek to get elected to the parliament. | |
39 | This was part of the whole debate. | |
40 | Many nationalists started it on Facebook,without understanding the difference. | |
41 | She tried to explain, but people began to insult her, with many also discussing her personal life, party membership, and posting insulting comments on her 9-year-old son's Facebook page. | |
42 | If you dig deep enough, you would see some comments telling more explicitly what I think actually irked many people: the fact she has “shoeva” in her last name (usually this ending suggests the person is of Pamiri origin). | |
43 | This is what angered Amirshoeva. However, she did not think she was going public with that comment - she posted it as a comment in response to a thread started by her friend, not as a separate status update. | Olga Tatubalina, mpanoratra gazety avy ao amin'ny sampam-baovao Asia-Plus, malaza tamin'ny niantsoany ireo olo-mahay mpanohana ny governemanta ho govno, na ‘tay' tamin'ny taon-dasa no nahomby nahazo ny fitorian'ireo olo-mahay noho ny faniratsirana ny ‘voninahitr'izy ireo'. |
44 | Also, I think the summary is a bit unfair to Amirshoeva. | |
45 | She does speak Tajik, at a very good street level. She might not be able to write an article in Tajik, but she can freely express herself in the language. | Nanisy tsipalotra ny bolshevik Vladimir Lenina, , izay nanoratra tao anaty taratasy hoan'ilay mpanoratra Maxim Gorky, i Tatubalina izay nanao hoe: “Ny olo-mahay - dia tsy atidohan'ny firenena, fa ny tainy.” |
46 | Information about the state language exam and the summary to the article which originally read ‘if the only words you know in another language are expletives, better to say nothing at all', have since been amended. | |