he does not have the money and then I have the money you know uh also way
back way back in an integral GTm. I used to work with MSF holland. So I
had the money to you know get my, my, my father called money and then my
money from my job because I worked, I worked with robert e you know
because when I had 1/7 grade so I couldn't figure you know very good
english and write very well. So I had the money to the, that they have a
safe homeland you know uh, medicine center here you have ever heard of it
? Yeah, I worked with them too. So they have a office in Gambella and then
I went to their office and I will present myself, they knew me, they gave
me the money for a two month that I missed. They pay me for these two
months you know, plus the money that I, I had for for the car like myself.
Then I talked to my friend the one that is inconsolable. His name is uh
huh Yeah. Uh, he knows America, you know american language which is the
european language. So uh, his name is come short name. Yeah. So come short
now he'd go and talk to one of the drivers Ethiopian drivers. We tell him
we have the money, we can pay you okay you take us right as well. And then
the driver said okay wait for me right there without the grease because
the Gambella does have a bridge and then there is another village there,
that village, it's a village they see you that they can kill you too. But
the drivers say I cannot because the army where people can, you know take
the transportation, it's controlled by the annual gone. If they see you
getting into the car, they will take you out. So he want us to call out
the police and then wait for the car. Uh on the other side of the reason.
Very dangerous, very dangerous. You know. So myself and my friend come
short. We, we just act like we're taking a walk. You know, we just go
there like normal people like we don't pretend like we're going somewhere
, we just walk and then we get one of the restaurant over there, they're
selling a T uh we sit there way by our tea and wait for the car. But we
know the car is coming and when the car came then we jump into it. So we
get our transportation and we pay him and then he took us, took us to
another Ethiopian village. And then the next day we made it to this well
Ethiopia, This is how I got here. And then I strain on just about from
1990, 1991.
So in the middle of 1991, now there were some other people that came just
like me. They went all the way to kenya, you know, they crossed the border
of Ethiopia and they cross the border to kenna, wow. So they ruled out the
letter and say now there is a subtle, you know, if you come here you
probably be able to get the receptacle. You know, there is a resettlement
for you know for Canada and the United States and Australia. So now we
have people, people that get a chance to go there if you have a chance or
you have transportation, you can come and join. So those are the people
that go to school with some of them. They are, they were our teacher back
in the refugee camp and then they wrote a letter to a few people in the,
in our and then I heard about it and then when I heard about it, then now
I went with a few friends, a random friend that we collect ourselves and
then we went to the border, we crossed the border from Ethiopia to King
and we went to a refugee camp called Walla Walla. You can okay yeah. So in
the, whatever you can, then we Stay there for like eight months and then
we had an issue with another tribe. There was a tribe that lived in
between there, they call them Gary.
So because of a lot of social beneath there um, there was a Sudanese for
social needs from Northern try uh, from annual uh, and then from Goenka
and then from Equatoria and then we had a few people, friends of us that
played the soccer ball with three people get missing with us in whatever
you can. And then now we had another issue. Somebody's killing people here.
Who is that person. And then we find out where the dirty people, another
tribe that based, you know between the border of Ethiopia and kenya, the
big bus Ethiopian language and he's white. Okay. Now because they are the
border. Why would they want to kill? Why did they want to kill him? I
don't know what the motive was. Uh they were Islamic. They were muslim. I
think they don't like that because we were christian or something. Uh and
then they killed they killed three of our boys from Equatorial. And then
now the fighting broke out again in the robert E camp. So now you're gonna
leave again. And then now yeah, you can tell us now if you cannot
understand each other now. And the refugee from South Sudan and the
refugees from kenya, we need to separate here. So we need to take some
people to Kakuma refugee camp and then we need to take some people to the
other of the camp. We say okay that's fine wherever you want to check out.
Then we had one of the leader uh that guy is here now in town and his
name is Peter yeah Peter okay, Peter you're doing we know yeah Peter
you're here in town. He needs a veteran because he he went went to army.
He went to the U. S. Army. You know he went to Afghanistan and places like
that. Okay so we really don't talk to him. Yeah I think I'd like that.
Yeah so peter yet with with cam leader in our site. So he tells the
the U. N. Worker guys there you know that like the person that that take
the exam that they ruled the camp at that time. The leader for the camp.
He tells them now we cannot go to come home. We need to go to the four of
you can that is our brother. It's close to my militia. That was 99 92 93.
You know. So at that time the one out of the camp was afraid you know
they would call a doctor. And then Peter Yako tells the uh the U. N.
Worker you know U. S. Representative in the camera wilder. We needed to go
to we need to go to a different camp. So at that time we were we checked
the convoy. It was a really large convoy you know like. But on 400 cars a
lot of people. Yeah. You know and you know the big truck that we have here.
That is the same truck that we came to do. But you have to have like a
truck. You know it's like the often talk talk talk but you put the people
in there it gets the same you know the time my dad me you know 18 Wheeler.
Yes we drove for for business. That's when we took their my goodness how
many days. I know And then uh there was a long long long bus I mean a long
long time you know so a lot of people can go there like maybe around 100
people can fit in there you know. So we came with that convoy because we
are like too many refugees and then we went and had two days before we
headed to uh for are you can and then now we start going to be for the
camp and we had another issue there in the for everything you know you
know there was a war in mogadishu at that time there was people were
called bandits bandits they come and randomly shoot at night. They
including our stuff. You don't have very much stuff. We do not have guns,
we do not have anything no for texas you know so what we do is we just
pray, we pray that God you know we know we came here in the middle of
nowhere. Uh so God is great God God may have a plan for us. So we don't
know what's going to happen. You know So at that time the bandages can
come from mogadishu you know like the Somali army they came and I just
shoot and loot whatever they can take. You know sometimes they elude the U.
N. Vehicles. You know you know one of the times we have to rescue one of
the people and then that day we were not because you know the cab refugee
I mean the uh you and her to give us like a lot of sugar bags and a lot of
corns and a lot of uh you know a lot of flowers because we rescue one of
the vehicle you know Yeah they lose one of their one of the U. N. Vehicle
you know between the dark and you can't and then when they can at that
time we were playing playing dominoes and then they came through drove the
car and then we knew it it was not the right people because they don't
they drive they don't drive on the street but they drive you know like in
the dirt and the dirt and then we knew it with chris people and then we
all run their they have gone through like three of them they afghan they
would shoot us but they didn't shoot us. So they run in the budget they
leave the car in there in the dirt with the key and they didn't shoot you
know that was like yeah we were lucky we share them around. We knew we
didn't share them because they have guns by the way they could shoot us.
Yeah but they did but they didn't shoot, they run running in the bushes
and then we get the car we have one person they know how to drive and he
dropped it. Don't drop the vehicle that we took the vehicle all the way to.
You, took the vehicle all the way to the car, to the headquarter of the
camp. And then when they see the car they say okay now the Sudanese we we
really appreciate what you did. You rescue the car. We were about to go to
get the kenya, harm me to go and get the car. But now you get it so we can
give you all you need. Today was wonderful.