Azalai, The Caravan of Peace - Now in High Quality! (Full Documentary)

[Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] money [Music] [Music] there is nothing as changing as the desert nothing that changes with the same quiet appearance the caravans always seem to move over the same dude they seem to relaxed crossing some invented courses courses traced by men who never existed still universes in a timeless landscape without limits the senses deceive in the desert you never step on the same do the desert is made of men with a vision of the future men of fire who fight against oblivion so as not to betray that future for centuries era this has been one of the largest ports in the universe of the eggs those mythical blue men of the desert they lived there among the dunes and mountains of the air Massif but they regularly approached the city either to protect it or to attack it be as alive one of the last big commercial salt rooms used to start off from Agra days and still does from November to January hundreds thousands of camels crossed the way between Agadez and the minds of Bill ma to further distribute the salt to the rest of the country after ten years of war between the rebel twigs and the niger government the Osanai caravan travels peacefully again you see my name is Hasan high heat I'm 10 years old and I'm studying in August although I was born in a village located in the mountain when I grow up I want to be alive from the shadow sameen but I here are you Ali mine my name is Ibrahim are you ali mine I got it I'm at Warwick born in Agadez I'm studying at secondary school and when I finish I want to be a doctor look it up hassan ND but i even go to school together although their parents fought on different sides during the war the hassan family fought very actively in favor of the rebels his uncle he lives within Agadez was a member of the guerrillas secret services on the other hand ibrahim is family is pro-government they have lived in the city for many years and are in favor of keeping on good terms with the government but these two families have something in common both have always been dedicated to the ally the caravan of salt don't know the rest of America neither Hassan nori brain have ever accompanied their parents on the caravan the war made the way dangerous and therefore they did not dare to travel with them but this year will be different this year for the first time the caravans will depart in peace and children will leave school for a few weeks to start learning their parents profession a son wants to become a lawyer and he aimed a doctor their respective parents support them as they want their children to be able to enter a world that they have never known but they also want them not to forget their parents want them to fight for the world that they belong to a world in danger of extinction in the face of the advancing modern world there is a big difference between Twilight children can go or do not go to school the tronic who have gone to school no longer have slaves and rarely act violently the rebellion made access to school very difficult some parents were afraid of bringing their children to school another thought that we wanted to influence them against their traditions these children you see here are the engineers and employees of the future regardless whether they are Tuareg Xhosa or pale people are my view he took for it I do this young me know for month ah I mean it leave them far I did quite enterprise classes are given in French and Tamasheq which is the language spoken by the Tuareg we try to teach them a basis of general knowledge without forgetting those aspects of tradition that we consider essential anyway either using this or any other learning procedure there is always something more important than the teaching system to live in peace former NYP follow that you buy a CD fire boom ba ba ba ba ba de Xiang so they still projector by Hema anyone know the kiswa defense Cecilia Jimenez v as Manisha kewal building by Douglas av-8b my it was fortunate to have you to do this a little better the schooling of their children is one of the key factors to persuade the Twilight people to abandon the nomadic life and to integrate themselves in the modern world this type of school started at the time of the French colonization the continuous Exodus motivated by the severe drought suffered in 1973 and 1984 together with 10 years of war have not allowed them to develop the educational system in a regular way little by little parents finally understood that an education meant an advantage to find jobs apart from those of the pneumatic breeding of animals and that consequently it would also mean an open door to future prospects for their children in a time of crisis such as this [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the ten-year struggle between the rebel twigs and niger government is the consequence of the process of disintegration that the Tuareg people suffered during the second half of the 20th century for a very long time the Thomas shek which is what they call themselves have dedicated themselves to attacking and protecting the caravans as well as to collecting taxes for the right to cross their territory the abolition of slavery in the years of the colony the elimination of the payment of territorial crossing rights and the arrival of currencies ruined the basis of the traditional economy thus destroying the prestige of the nobility in spite of all that the Tamasheq get on quite well with French people when independence arrived however they began to suffer total discrimination at the hands of the new state that was born under the leadership of the house of groups in the south rioting broke out in 1991 demanding political autonomy and access to the modern production resources that existed within their territory the Tamasheq culture as it is represented by the admirers of the exotic no longer exists currently a new and long struggle is taking place how to accept the challenges of the future without disregarding the traditions on papyrus City we cannot continue to live in the Middle Ages silly error feudalism has passed the Union there are improvements such as drugs the phone or electric lights that are basic for development when we but later got up under what you do Co see things has changed and we must adapt accordingly we have no other choice it isn't the nice the image of the camel caravans walking along the dunes judges but the truck carries seven times more load and five times faster when washing caravans must continue to exist up or there thousands of families my own among them that append on of an abuse but it is necessary to find new alternative inconvenient or elaborate a few years ago a los tablished that regulated the transportation of self which could only be made by camels and not internally just because they did a car about those are laws to protect the other light here elements per one How long could the caravan be protected if compared that's rather don't you devote a particular intern I'm gonna go at work up Mikhail a young moogly rugged Rock the elder must work together with the young people you find there's no alternative Elena Japan see that would be a good incentive on should go together [Music] I have lived in others for two years with my uncle Connie my mother's eldest brother due to war problems but emia school was closed and so it was decided that I would live with my uncle and my aunt my uncle Khanna is a blacksmith he left the village many years ago and came to town to earn his living he rarely returns to the village Augustana the more you can move a la sala casa amarela Khalid Mohammed el-hadji is Hasan's father he lives in Tamiya and during the war he worked as an informant for the rebel groups who were fighting against the government he was officially working with an NGO to help the refugees and from that position he provided details about the movements made by the regular nine-year troops around the area [Music] his family has always worked on the other line and this year for the first time in a long time he will see his Caravan depart in a quiet atmosphere at last an era of peace can be breathed at the village long ago Andy Kraftwerk was not made directly by the 20s but by slaves who stayed at stable camps the blacksmith's although more highly esteemed were part of this group a nobleman would never marry a craftswoman all these habits have changed with Sonic and nowadays the relationships among the races are more flexible and also marriages with members of other ethnic groups are more common well silver crosses are the most highly prized jewelry among all the work made by the Tuareg craftsmen there is a different cross design for each City Timbuktu and Agadez have theirs and also Tamiya it's used for protection and also as a currency of exchange in the drought season these are exchanged for Campbell's cloth or food to make these crosses they use the bees wax melting technique the beeswax is heated shaped by hand and the mold is covered with donkey dong once the wax is melted they pour molten silver in it at the end of this process is when they will verify the good skills of the craftsmen in the detail of the drawings that complete the cross Rajamouli Libya yesterday was kagami rely on Hasani the forested Kida together Divya Jose today it has been several months since I've seen my parents at the beginning I felt very sad when they told me that I must leave him here and go to Agadez to study all my friends were in the village and I never thought about leaving now I feel very happy to see these mountains again Tamia is a little village in the heart of the air in northern idea the air is one of the massives that delimits the sahara desert since time immemorial and during the last few years of the most recent rebellion this steep territory has served as refuge for the Tuareg tribes Tamia is above all the starting point for the salt caravans that go in and out of the air mountains there are two routes one in the north departing from tamiya and another one in the planes departing for my cadets both meet in the tena de wells and then follow the same route to the Salt Mines [Music] I dream about going back enjoying my father to caravan when I left in the village I remembered that by then everybody was excited about the preparations for the trip for weeks everybody did nothing to talk about the caravan the stages about places where water could be found and also about the fear of being attacked by the army soldiers a great celebration was organized before departure now I'm coming back to enjoy it all that for the first time further Marx does he blame now he's my family now that is he will also go this year with the caravan for the first time I have not seen him for two days and I already miss him if we're lucky our caravans will join at the wealth of Canada all of his family have come to welcome him his father his mother and his uncle guma one of his father's brothers who emigrated to Libya during the conflict and who has also returned to join the caravan Libya backed the 20x and many left to receive military training there [Music] ok different seronegative sorry tanah Merah nee nee nee kiss our planet na Dhin na goo da da da da I was learning when I'd like you guys able to judge evidence for children you only do the gun - you don't got no internet it's a number net logically verdict other fun Arthur Rock of marzano Rakesh of the minute the rebellion was not for nothing it occurred due to specific reasons people had no right I do not think how much it could become an independent country but indeed I expected could be possible for our people who regularly enter the public offices jobs now for instance the my arrest of August is a time of check at those places where rebellion was hard you could find sometimes check linking people Nakota they could possibly assure the once under accidents and my idea is to stay here and work in agriculture I will try to get some piece of land to dig a well and live off that now that we're at peace I think this land will improve in some years you know I said so this is annoyed you know you cannot imagine the results you can obtain from this land if you really work on it we're in the middle of the desert of the mountain and in spite of that we get corn oranges and onions we are self-sufficient and our next objective is to get the road improved to be able to transport the surplus to agadez market so I'm basically the Tamasheq have always been aggressive people and the generations to come will have the opportunity to decide their own destiny what really counts is peace if we have peace there will be a future in Agadez he bream and his father have already started the preparations for the imminent departure of the Carolinas the market is the point where the journey begins and ends there the people show the shipment of salt they bring on their return just one camel can transport up to 200 kilograms of salt continue they are preparing the buna a paste made of dates millet and crushed dry cheese which will be the men's food when they're in the desert bula is a high-energy food together with tea is the essential diet for the camel drivers over the next few days they will have a long way to walk and there is no time to cook the meals are frugal and fast only teas had in different ways or the preparation and consumption of tea time does not exist by the end of September the men and women will forget about the rest of their tasks and work exclusively for the özil a preparation of the Caravan takes several weeks by the middle of October everything must be ready for the departure I might add loves to cook hi mr. specious used to prepare when I was living in that is my aunt also cooks good but not at all like my mother when I have wife I wanted to be just like my mother the people of Ibrahim is Caravan are ordering the hundreds of meters of rope needed to put everything in its place making rope is one of the most important tasks carried out on the days prior to the departure they must cut palm leaves dried up and then spin them energetically so that they remain strongly tight at departure time the camels carry a light load but on the way back it will be necessary to tie several tons of salt on the camel's back storage after more than a particular part of this is a task achieved mainly by women since their hands are slimmer and so they can do this job much better than men there is little time left for departure very soon everything will be ready and I will walk along the desert with my father and the rest of men when I was a child my father gave me a newborn camel and told me that someday we would both walk with Him in the caravan that camel died to his I'm buried in right here in his market yesterday my father bought another adult camel for me I promised my father to participate in many caravans of this camel why don't you discuss your mother you know another essential job to be done is the preparation of the Gerber's the desert water bottles it's not easy to get water along the route wells are often dry and many kilometres have to be traveled without obtaining any kind of liquid that's why it's imperative to carry good Gerber's that allow people to be autonomous you can live in the desert without food but never without water to make those Gerber's you must kill a goat skin it and dry the skin once dried you put it in water and it is handled until it loses the smell and gain softness afterwards you sew it you put the finishing touch to it and finally you blow inside to verify that there are no holes the legislation on water ownership is very precise and so fraud may be punished even with expulsion from the community in this geography the different elements related to water that is the irrigation ditch the garden or the palm may have different owners odda is our winner Ibrahim is Caravan is ready to depart when his father gives the order this expedition will go towards the spurs of the air to meet with the huge dunes of 10 today if everything goes all right in 3 weeks they will reach the Vilna mines the eggs have never done anything but trading and the caravan is the eternal symbol of a world that is fading away the caravan seems to have always existed and so it has for centuries the 20 eggs have had dealings with all kinds of merchandise some of them harmless and some others more questionable the slave trade had been their main source of income for a long time although they also worked with salt and precious metals are today's Timbuktu or Gow with the southern courts their natural frontier towards the black kingdoms of sio upon their arrival in those cities every Caravan would be inspected by the authorities who will reserve a portion of the load for the king only after that will they be able to sell the rest of the merchandise the attacks were frequent the twining themselves who offered their help as protectors and acted instead as attackers if rejected carried out most of the attacks paradoxically during the colonialism they lived the best moment of the commercial expeditions the presence of French troops kept the bandits off the caravans routes [Applause] during the second half of the 20th century that immutable looking desert suffered a fatal hit the arrival of the truck made the camel become a second-class transportation system those times when the desert was inhabited by a web of hundreds of thousands of camels eternally crossing the sandy ground have disappeared the only routes left as reminders of the past are the other lie of the salt mines how the need to timbuktu that are the Neo dog and Mauritania and are they stability good if young people like her son and Yuri do not prevent it these will be the last salt caravans [Applause] [Music] today is an important day for Hassan today a knife will be given to the 20 eggs life is not strongly marked by rituals but they have some symbolic acts that are important for integration of young people in the adult world one of them is the gift of the knife and the sword which all Tuareg men carry with them the time when these weapons had a real practical value as passed the last wars have been fought with modern rifles and mortars nevertheless the knife and sword still keep their symbolic value the blacksmith shows them other works that Hassan's father has ordered to be carried in the caravan come on come on I thought I could better you know and at last they give him the knife was it given to Yahoo oh I'm me and I don't you wait when he comes back with the caravan only we'll give him a sword as well [Music] [Applause] [Music] the Tamiya Caravan is about to start but before departure a great farewell party will be celebrated this is not usually done either a departure or at arrival the caravan has been a usual thing a constant element in the desert scenery and everyday activities are not celebrated but this time is different this time people are conscious of the fact that they are not celebrating just one more Caravan but a reencounter many years of war have passed what they are in fact celebrating is that there is no war [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] the celebration starts with a camels race for the young people from the time they are 5 years old children take care of the animal and when they are 7 they begin to learn how to ride camels they will very soon right at high speed [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] in such places as D Mia the influence of tradition is still very strong these parties called fantasy are usually held at weddings when young people get married it is quite rare that family ties are not reinforced with the birth of a boy a boy's birth is much more happily celebrated than a girl's in due time the boy will increase the military power of the tribe in that case men and women will come to congratulate the mother but if a girl is born just the women will on the seventh day after the birth and not before the father will be allowed to see a son it is then when a name is given to the child on that same day and a lot of moon hangs an amulet from his neck boys are circumcised when they are three or four no incision is performed on girls when girls are 6 or 7 they start learning how to make mats and clay objects and how to spend goats hair when they reach puberty they are given their first woman's veil when they are 16 young people of both sexes can enter adult society and that is the moment when they are allowed to participate in the azam azam means conversation social intercourse although it really consists of nighttime musical parties where single men are widowers and single women can participate at these reunions you can read the Mussoorie atmosphere ously means to run to runaway bride under the protection of the night and with the complicity of the music young people stick to one exchange some daring caresses and erotic games that end in final intimate encounters quite mark until the time of marriage the sexual freedom of kwatak women is absolute the word virginity does not exist in Tamasheq the verb to deflower is translated as to make a hole the same words they use to drill wells for water it is not an obligation [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] one of the facts that is most influenced a slow destruction of Tuareg culture is the process of Islamization which little by little such as the influence of the Toyota the radio has taken possession of every corner of a desert in spite of that the Tuareg are firm believers and the women still keep some ancient rites the tradition grants them they owned their own goods even when married and it is very unusual for them to marry before being 20 when they get married the couple lives for one year at the wife's family's camp Hebrews also practice this habit that already appeared in the Old Testament its objective is to guarantee good relationships after this first year another feast is celebrated in which the men and women from the husband's camp come close to pretending that they will kidnap the girl men scream some of the words of warriors and the women replies shouting in panic they surround the young wife's tent and claim her as if from now on she would only belong to their family in spite of it or maybe because of it it is the women who appear to be more reticent to enter the unsafe abyss of the modern world they are the guardians of tradition they wait for the man when he leaves with the care of it or when he immigrants abroad women carefully consider the pros and cons of abandoning the village to go they are the womb and the back of the desert [Music] [Applause] [Music] we go at last my father has talked to me for a long time about this moment I know that the trip will be difficult but I don't care I want to be a doctor but I'd also like to go with a caravan every year I do not know whether this is possible anyway the only thing I want now is to remain here and enjoy the trip the elders say that we must learn how to do this job and further teach it to our sons and our sons to theirs when I grow up I will have four children two of them will go to the caravan and the other two will stay in the city and the only son is cannot break my cousin - the moment has also come for Hassan's Caravan it will take several days to go down the air mountains and little by little the line of camels fade into the sand of today [Music] the journey out from tamiya to the salt mines could last about two weeks another seven days will be spent to select and load the salt blocks and three more weeks to carry them to Agra days where they will sell them to the highest bidder with the money obtained they will buy millet and some other Caprice Hassan's father wants to buy a TV but in Tamiya they do not have electricity so you will also need to buy a generator he still does not know whether the trip will yield profits enough for all that the trip stages are long they start off very early at dawn and they walk until the Sun is so high that they need to make a stop the rhythm is weary but constant hour by hour and day by day they keep walking the long way towards the salt mines they walk at least 30 to 35 kilometres per day [Music] you [Music] the unavoidable cup of tea that relieves their stomachs and comforts their spirits and everything [Music] headed off that's not a mountain [Music] someone [Music] [Applause] Oh [Applause] [Music] people also have arrested Hassan's camp the evening is come and they have to get everything ready to spend the night stops are usually made in places sheltered from the wind at the foot of a Hillary for among the dunes to protect the animals officer [Music] the camels must be unloaded and fed and all the work must be done before the night comes [Music] sunset in the desert is beautiful but short line this is the essential moment in Africa the African sunset is a fleeting view of paradise the first thing to do when you go out from eyes and enter 10 la is to fix your position by finding false stars called tefillah these stars will show you the way they have the shape of a snake as if there were four fingers to understand yes yes I do know one then you must pass through the middle of them guess through the middle these stars indicate your way and then you keep walking you can walking there until they are right over your head and go afterwards Sachi comes out sad she comes out in the middle of taffeta over you'll know ain't worried about a - Yessica gnetophyta doesn't she come out isn't that that one by the mall at all no she's not come out yet coming out comes out when Kaka is over your head four stars form at an angle two of them represent the legs and the other to represent the earth she carries the sword in one arm the sword yes the song and now when amana is over your head that isn't time to count no wonder that is my day thank you then every time to count instead a little taco blue cool you know what yes that's right the moment to camp until the next day all these stars that I've shown you point towards the east the other lies nights are cold and the camps are austere they carry just one blanket and the teapot that is all a man needs and desert the rest of the things will appear you don't know from where or how but they will appear whatever the weather is the three tea ceremony is always celebrated the first tea tastes bitter the second tastes milder and the third taste sweeter but acute would get off home time machine don't question you Amara Mallika narada kun i'm a certain independence who nina nevada come with us not Sonia did we forget about it after this frugal breakfast they must start again the camels will be loaded and the weight duly balanced the physical condition of each camel must be checked every day to organize the march accordingly maybe some animals are wounded sick or very tired perhaps they will have to walk through very stony grounds or very high dunes if the physical conditions of the expedition are acceptable in general then they choose straight paths even if those are tough if most of the animals are quite well but some of them are somehow that these will be placed at the end of the caravan and the March will go slowly to lose an animal means a tragedy it's necessary to check carefully all the circumstances and elements that could affect them in any way and act accordingly in due time with the reliability gained during centuries of experience before starting they must thank God for allowing them to go on for another day although the 20 X have not ever been strictly devoted to Islam they have believed in imps in the natural laws and in the strength of the wind and in the sand Allah was respected but just on a second plane the power of the Mota boots the Islamic religious leaders increased due to the process of turning land into desert and the fall of the nobles from power nowadays they are the Chiefs of the twatting community the caravans move ahead Hasan's is going down the last foothills of the air mountains a tough ground black sand that has been molded by the fury of volcanoes there facing the big dunes of sand is imminent Ibrahim scarab an still walks along the stony plains prior to the tenha day as sandy grounds both caravans are already very close to one another just at the entrance of the last wells that lead to the sand seek and the salt mines [Music] [Music] the caravan walks with the sign immune to discouragement and always in the same direction always the same steps on sand that was never stepped on before a changing sand it becomes a dune a slope men go ahead with one eye on the path and the other on the horizon they are the guardians of the eternal time of the desert of victims of waiting in silence advancing over the ruins of their own [Music] you sort of look Hassan and his father have completed the first part of the trip they're already having a rest and eating bula the paste of dates cheese and millet the women prepared that food on the days prior to the caravans departure they've spent almost one week to reach the well they will rest for a couple of days and they will start again later on eBay Eames Caravan also reaches the well they have spent a little more time eight days [Music] the moments our parents told us we were going to travel with a caravan we've spoken of nothing else but that you tried to imagine how it would be to walk along for one day after the others of the animals how the night will pass learning out the guide us by the Stars and now here we are together at last we do know it's still a long way to be Anna but from now on we will walk close to one another our professor told us once that friendships consisted of giving your friend the weapon that causes wounds as he will use it to defend us I hope always to stand by her son to defend you our son's father and uncle are talking about the future of the caravans I said we're done opinion on many they're concerned about the competition from trucks the agreement for survival of toggle arm is no longer respected the trucks arrived in bill man they load this all to be carried down to near me we cannot compete in that it's tuned we're thinking about some other alternative we will leave the salt business but we cannot abandon our camels so we would have to go to the city at the new comedy kadal for a while both father's chat the boys attend the scenic climbers CC NOC is the 20 writer of worship we done' him yeah why by him by he know why but I him it's being forgotten goal as only the eldest and the most remote nomadic people use it yeah yes see hey hey ha ha ha ha and Alison now Kiki need a long leg on your thumb we must find other options that are breeding camels and organising caravans to sell their flesh to Libya is not at all bad but we must study some other alternatives and above all we must keep on fighting to obtain protection and support against the trucks our children must have the opportunity to choose we must try to find a way to keep caravans alive mainly for our children whom we have so strongly fought for [Music] the 20 live in a universe that is changing very quickly a kind of reality that has nothing to do with the one live by their parents is waiting for Hassan and Ibrahim in that future they are supposed to build there must be a necessary if uncertain place for traditionally the 20x tradition is slavery an eternal war against everyone and even against themselves but this tradition is also a synonym for dignity freedom and identity against the abyss of the future so it's time for them to find their own place in this world [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]

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Length: 53min 45sec (3225 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 24 2017