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From: IRIN <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:32 PM
Subject: SUDAN: Zouhal Iead, "I go to Ethiopia to sleep then come back
to Kurmuk"
To: Jean-Francois Darcq <[email protected]>


SUDAN: Zouhal Iead, "I go to Ethiopia to sleep then come back to Kurmuk"

KURMUK, 14 October 2011 (IRIN) - Zouhal Iead, 17, fled an aerial
bombardment [ http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93959 ] of
her village of Bouk in Sudan's Blue Nile State, after war broke out
there in early September between the Sudan Armed Forces and the Sudan
People's Liberation Movement-North. IRIN caught up with Iead at Kurmuk
hospital, [ http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93942 ] where
she was recently treated for shrapnel wounds. The hospital is in
Kurmuk town, near the Ethiopian border and 90km from Bouk.

 "One month ago, the Antonov [plane] came and bombed us. We feel OK
now as the soldiers came and took us to hospital. My husband is a
commander here.

 "That day, the Antonov came three times - in the morning twice and
then at sundown. We ran from the house to the mountains to hide. We
were so afraid that the Antonov would come and kill us all, but no one
died.

 "Because I am scared of the bombs, I go to Ethiopia to sleep and then
come back to Kurmuk to get food each day for the children.

 "My husband is not here. He's on the front line. He told me to take
the children and go with them to Ethiopia. He said to go to a camp
there but there are many refugees there and it is too far, so I just
walk from here 10 minutes over the border and sleep there.

 "In the night, I dream the Antonov will bomb my husband. Sometimes I
dream that he will come here and find me. My baby is only 18 months
old."

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This report online: http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportID=93964



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