NOT FREE, YET!!!

...We continued to walk with them, till we came to a place where there were lots of palm wine trees. As we walked along the column of these endless palm wine trees, there was a terrible smell all along.


Eventually, we turned off the road, and moved into the groove of palm wine trees, and then, I saw what the smell was all about.

As we walked on, I could see bodies of dead soldiers as far as I could see!

It soon appeared to me, that the place was close to a river. It was kind of swampy.

As we got closer to the water, there were more and more dead bodies. We actually had to walk over quite a lot, to keep going. Nobody was saying anything.

We eventually got to the bank of the river. A lot of people were there trying to cross the river.

I cannot remember exactly how long it took us to get there from Nkwerre. I only remember that we did not sleep anywhere, except where I had slept off. We just kept trekking.

My brother held me close as we waded through the river; a lot of other people were also crossing the river at this point. At a point, I could not feel anything under my feet!

He dragged me along till we got to the other bank of the river.

As we got across, there were federal soldiers on the bank, searching people.

When it got to our turn, after searching us, they detained my brother (I had to stay with him), with some other people, especially young women, with some elderly women wailing as the younger ones were taken away from them...

----BIAFRA:LEST WE FORGET!