Suai Media Space

Hanesan lalenok hatudu lalatak
Botir rahun halo kanek
Tua sabu fo lanu
Isin ne’e nunka mohu

Anin bo’ot kasu uma kakuluk
Laloran tasi baku ha’u nia bero
Tanba moderno kamera hasai ha’u nia oin
Kruz ida ha’u iha atu salva o nia vida

Kultura naklekar modernu mai sobu
Uma du’ut ita nian isin klamar rai lulik
Hodi walan hahoris lalatak mundu ne’e
Manu aman kokorek naraman foun foin mosu

Tudik tesi du’ut
Ibun derok ko’a o nia isin
Foin senti moris furak
Hanoin aat mai sobu

Liman rasan: Sancho chamot Alves Nahac
Bibi Bulak 06-10-07

I video-taped this graffiti in July 2000 which was 11 months after the massacres that forced the whole population of Suai to flee to the hills in September 1999. I will post a video asap.

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This graffiti is all written in Indonesian - whereas now (2008) it is mostly in Tetun or Portuguese reflecting the real changes in the language being used daily and to whom the graffiti artists are addressing their comments.