Edith describes living without shelter near the Honduran border and her family’s separation.
- Chapter:
- Chapter 4: Refugee Experiences
- Interviewee:
- Edith
- Topics:
- Civil War
Transcription
We were just leaving the house at around 9 a.m. when we saw trucks filled with soldiers here. The town was full of soldiers. We left then and didn’t come back. We went to El Corozal, it's still called that, a town in Honduras. I don’t remember how long we were there for, but we lived in the woods, and some people hunted and brought us food, while we were living in the woods. After that, we all came to La Cañada. From there we went to... My mom wanted us to go to school. We lived there in La Cañada for a while. Every night, we would go to sleep, all the people from our village. One night, a helicopter came to drop bombs on us.
My mom thought, "My girls are going to die here, so we’re going to take them to Honduras.”
They sent us three to Honduras to a friend’s house. She was my mom’s friend’s sister. We were there for about three months. My mom would come visit us by a river near La Golondrina, at night. She would come see us, the man we were staying with would take us there to meet her.