WEBVTT 00:00:00.540 --> 00:00:07.316 he does not have the money and then I have the money you know uh also way 00:00:07.349 --> 00:00:13.107 back way back in an integral GTm. I used to work with MSF holland. So I 00:00:13.140 --> 00:00:19.727 had the money to you know get my, my, my father called money and then my 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:23.907 money from my job because I worked, I worked with robert e you know 00:00:23.940 --> 00:00:30.037 because when I had 1/7 grade so I couldn't figure you know very good 00:00:30.070 --> 00:00:35.976 english and write very well. So I had the money to the, that they have a 00:00:36.009 --> 00:00:42.557 safe homeland you know uh, medicine center here you have ever heard of it 00:00:42.590 --> 00:00:49.357 ? Yeah, I worked with them too. So they have a office in Gambella and then 00:00:49.390 --> 00:00:53.876 I went to their office and I will present myself, they knew me, they gave 00:00:53.909 --> 00:00:58.387 me the money for a two month that I missed. They pay me for these two 00:00:58.420 --> 00:01:04.307 months you know, plus the money that I, I had for for the car like myself. 00:01:04.340 --> 00:01:09.796 Then I talked to my friend the one that is inconsolable. His name is uh 00:01:09.829 --> 00:01:17.747 huh Yeah. Uh, he knows America, you know american language which is the 00:01:17.780 --> 00:01:25.780 european language. So uh, his name is come short name. Yeah. So come short 00:01:25.989 --> 00:01:30.406 now he'd go and talk to one of the drivers Ethiopian drivers. We tell him 00:01:30.439 --> 00:01:35.156 we have the money, we can pay you okay you take us right as well. And then 00:01:35.189 --> 00:01:40.977 the driver said okay wait for me right there without the grease because 00:01:41.010 --> 00:01:44.557 the Gambella does have a bridge and then there is another village there, 00:01:44.590 --> 00:01:51.036 that village, it's a village they see you that they can kill you too. But 00:01:51.069 --> 00:01:59.069 the drivers say I cannot because the army where people can, you know take 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:04.546 the transportation, it's controlled by the annual gone. If they see you 00:02:04.579 --> 00:02:09.656 getting into the car, they will take you out. So he want us to call out 00:02:09.689 --> 00:02:15.606 the police and then wait for the car. Uh on the other side of the reason. 00:02:15.639 --> 00:02:22.237 Very dangerous, very dangerous. You know. So myself and my friend come 00:02:22.270 --> 00:02:27.677 short. We, we just act like we're taking a walk. You know, we just go 00:02:27.710 --> 00:02:31.536 there like normal people like we don't pretend like we're going somewhere 00:02:31.569 --> 00:02:36.367 , we just walk and then we get one of the restaurant over there, they're 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:43.577 selling a T uh we sit there way by our tea and wait for the car. But we 00:02:43.610 --> 00:02:48.656 know the car is coming and when the car came then we jump into it. So we 00:02:48.689 --> 00:02:54.337 get our transportation and we pay him and then he took us, took us to 00:02:54.370 --> 00:03:00.397 another Ethiopian village. And then the next day we made it to this well 00:03:00.430 --> 00:03:05.786 Ethiopia, This is how I got here. And then I strain on just about from 00:03:05.819 --> 00:03:09.207 1990, 1991. 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:15.247 So in the middle of 1991, now there were some other people that came just 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:20.186 like me. They went all the way to kenya, you know, they crossed the border 00:03:20.219 --> 00:03:25.677 of Ethiopia and they cross the border to kenna, wow. So they ruled out the 00:03:25.710 --> 00:03:33.006 letter and say now there is a subtle, you know, if you come here you 00:03:33.039 --> 00:03:36.587 probably be able to get the receptacle. You know, there is a resettlement 00:03:36.620 --> 00:03:42.527 for you know for Canada and the United States and Australia. So now we 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:47.367 have people, people that get a chance to go there if you have a chance or 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:51.747 you have transportation, you can come and join. So those are the people 00:03:51.780 --> 00:03:56.386 that go to school with some of them. They are, they were our teacher back 00:03:56.419 --> 00:04:00.286 in the refugee camp and then they wrote a letter to a few people in the, 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:06.406 in our and then I heard about it and then when I heard about it, then now 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:10.927 I went with a few friends, a random friend that we collect ourselves and 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:15.906 then we went to the border, we crossed the border from Ethiopia to King 00:04:15.939 --> 00:04:21.606 and we went to a refugee camp called Walla Walla. You can okay yeah. So in 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:26.906 the, whatever you can, then we Stay there for like eight months and then 00:04:26.939 --> 00:04:31.067 we had an issue with another tribe. There was a tribe that lived in 00:04:31.100 --> 00:04:35.507 between there, they call them Gary. 00:04:35.540 --> 00:04:41.996 So because of a lot of social beneath there um, there was a Sudanese for 00:04:42.029 --> 00:04:49.327 social needs from Northern try uh, from annual uh, and then from Goenka 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:55.246 and then from Equatoria and then we had a few people, friends of us that 00:04:55.279 --> 00:05:02.687 played the soccer ball with three people get missing with us in whatever 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:08.127 you can. And then now we had another issue. Somebody's killing people here. 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:13.156 Who is that person. And then we find out where the dirty people, another 00:05:13.189 --> 00:05:18.877 tribe that based, you know between the border of Ethiopia and kenya, the 00:05:18.910 --> 00:05:25.387 big bus Ethiopian language and he's white. Okay. Now because they are the 00:05:25.420 --> 00:05:28.976 border. Why would they want to kill? Why did they want to kill him? I 00:05:29.009 --> 00:05:35.087 don't know what the motive was. Uh they were Islamic. They were muslim. I 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:39.366 think they don't like that because we were christian or something. Uh and 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:44.656 then they killed they killed three of our boys from Equatorial. And then 00:05:44.689 --> 00:05:49.397 now the fighting broke out again in the robert E camp. So now you're gonna 00:05:49.430 --> 00:05:54.596 leave again. And then now yeah, you can tell us now if you cannot 00:05:54.629 --> 00:05:59.986 understand each other now. And the refugee from South Sudan and the 00:06:00.019 --> 00:06:04.536 refugees from kenya, we need to separate here. So we need to take some 00:06:04.569 --> 00:06:08.447 people to Kakuma refugee camp and then we need to take some people to the 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:13.707 other of the camp. We say okay that's fine wherever you want to check out. 00:06:13.740 --> 00:06:19.796 Then we had one of the leader uh that guy is here now in town and his 00:06:19.829 --> 00:06:27.676 name is Peter yeah Peter okay, Peter you're doing we know yeah Peter 00:06:27.709 --> 00:06:32.837 you're here in town. He needs a veteran because he he went went to army. 00:06:32.870 --> 00:06:36.777 He went to the U. S. Army. You know he went to Afghanistan and places like 00:06:36.810 --> 00:06:42.736 that. Okay so we really don't talk to him. Yeah I think I'd like that. 00:06:42.769 --> 00:06:50.769 Yeah so peter yet with with cam leader in our site. So he tells the 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:58.116 the U. N. Worker guys there you know that like the person that that take 00:06:58.149 --> 00:07:03.207 the exam that they ruled the camp at that time. The leader for the camp. 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:07.687 He tells them now we cannot go to come home. We need to go to the four of 00:07:07.720 --> 00:07:15.720 you can that is our brother. It's close to my militia. That was 99 92 93. 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:24.279 You know. So at that time the one out of the camp was afraid you know 00:07:25.009 --> 00:07:32.937 they would call a doctor. And then Peter Yako tells the uh the U. N. 00:07:32.970 --> 00:07:39.207 Worker you know U. S. Representative in the camera wilder. We needed to go 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:44.736 to we need to go to a different camp. So at that time we were we checked 00:07:44.769 --> 00:07:52.769 the convoy. It was a really large convoy you know like. But on 400 cars a 00:07:53.389 --> 00:07:59.306 lot of people. Yeah. You know and you know the big truck that we have here. 00:07:59.339 --> 00:08:04.406 That is the same truck that we came to do. But you have to have like a 00:08:04.439 --> 00:08:11.217 truck. You know it's like the often talk talk talk but you put the people 00:08:11.250 --> 00:08:19.106 in there it gets the same you know the time my dad me you know 18 Wheeler. 00:08:19.139 --> 00:08:26.767 Yes we drove for for business. That's when we took their my goodness how 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:34.376 many days. I know And then uh there was a long long long bus I mean a long 00:08:34.409 --> 00:08:39.567 long time you know so a lot of people can go there like maybe around 100 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:45.626 people can fit in there you know. So we came with that convoy because we 00:08:45.659 --> 00:08:50.096 are like too many refugees and then we went and had two days before we 00:08:50.129 --> 00:08:57.276 headed to uh for are you can and then now we start going to be for the 00:08:57.309 --> 00:09:04.606 camp and we had another issue there in the for everything you know you 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:09.707 know there was a war in mogadishu at that time there was people were 00:09:09.740 --> 00:09:15.376 called bandits bandits they come and randomly shoot at night. They 00:09:15.409 --> 00:09:20.417 including our stuff. You don't have very much stuff. We do not have guns, 00:09:20.450 --> 00:09:25.506 we do not have anything no for texas you know so what we do is we just 00:09:25.539 --> 00:09:29.827 pray, we pray that God you know we know we came here in the middle of 00:09:29.860 --> 00:09:36.236 nowhere. Uh so God is great God God may have a plan for us. So we don't 00:09:36.269 --> 00:09:41.736 know what's going to happen. You know So at that time the bandages can 00:09:41.769 --> 00:09:48.236 come from mogadishu you know like the Somali army they came and I just 00:09:48.269 --> 00:09:54.096 shoot and loot whatever they can take. You know sometimes they elude the U. 00:09:54.129 --> 00:09:59.437 N. Vehicles. You know you know one of the times we have to rescue one of 00:09:59.470 --> 00:10:06.547 the people and then that day we were not because you know the cab refugee 00:10:06.580 --> 00:10:11.927 I mean the uh you and her to give us like a lot of sugar bags and a lot of 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:16.957 corns and a lot of uh you know a lot of flowers because we rescue one of 00:10:16.990 --> 00:10:22.907 the vehicle you know Yeah they lose one of their one of the U. N. Vehicle 00:10:22.940 --> 00:10:30.187 you know between the dark and you can't and then when they can at that 00:10:30.220 --> 00:10:35.047 time we were playing playing dominoes and then they came through drove the 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:39.957 car and then we knew it it was not the right people because they don't 00:10:39.990 --> 00:10:45.077 they drive they don't drive on the street but they drive you know like in 00:10:45.110 --> 00:10:50.427 the dirt and the dirt and then we knew it with chris people and then we 00:10:50.460 --> 00:10:54.636 all run their they have gone through like three of them they afghan they 00:10:54.669 --> 00:10:59.106 would shoot us but they didn't shoot us. So they run in the budget they 00:10:59.139 --> 00:11:03.307 leave the car in there in the dirt with the key and they didn't shoot you 00:11:03.340 --> 00:11:07.957 know that was like yeah we were lucky we share them around. We knew we 00:11:07.990 --> 00:11:11.907 didn't share them because they have guns by the way they could shoot us. 00:11:11.940 --> 00:11:15.846 Yeah but they did but they didn't shoot, they run running in the bushes 00:11:15.879 --> 00:11:21.276 and then we get the car we have one person they know how to drive and he 00:11:21.309 --> 00:11:26.106 dropped it. Don't drop the vehicle that we took the vehicle all the way to. 00:11:26.139 --> 00:11:31.317 You, took the vehicle all the way to the car, to the headquarter of the 00:11:31.350 --> 00:11:37.356 camp. And then when they see the car they say okay now the Sudanese we we 00:11:37.389 --> 00:11:42.047 really appreciate what you did. You rescue the car. We were about to go to 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:47.146 get the kenya, harm me to go and get the car. But now you get it so we can 00:11:47.179 --> 00:11:51.350 give you all you need. Today was wonderful.