KIEV // “When strangers are coming, they come to your house, they kill you all and say, ‘we’re not guilty, not guilty’.”Those are the harrowing opening words of war-scarred Ukraine’s winning entry for the Eurovision song contest — a flamboyant and festive occasion more normally associated with laughs than tears.The lament entitled 1944 was sung in Saturday’s Eurovision grand final in Stockholm by 32-year-old Jamala, a member of the Muslim Tatar minority of Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.Jamala’s words refer to the tragedy that befell her great-grandmother near the end of the Second World War, …read more
Source: The National
