Patricia describes an episode in which women were treated aggressively in public by members of ORDEN.
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The soldiers came at night, knocking on doors, and when they came in they pulled my sister-in-law out by the hair.
And they said to her, “You’re a nurse, right?” because she had received some first aid trainings.
“They can’t even read,” he said, “and they’re nurses.”
Well, they made them go outside, my two sisters-in-law and my mother-in-law. They rounded up everyone who was organized, in the whole town. They gathered them together in one place near my house. Right there. I didn’t see what they did, but there were a lot of them outside.
They stuck my sister-in-law here with their fingers, and she felt like she was going to faint, and when she was about to faint she said, “He’s going to kill me!”
“Ha, what do you mean I’m going to take your life, I’m not going to break you!”
“I’m going to take your life, I’m not going to break your bones,” I mean to say.
Well, they held them there for a long time. They made all the women that they had rounded up stay there together. They pulled their hair.
They made them shout slogans like, “Long live ORDEN!” Then they left them at their homes and came to the town of El Sitio to search for the men.