Never Find

Chavac, Jennifer

     My grandmom’s name is Maria. She lives in Antigua Guatemala .In 1980, when the war began, she was 27 years old. she has currently 7 daughters and 1 son.

But when the war began she only had 5 daughters. Lucas Garcia was president but rios mott overthrew him.

My grandmother thinks that the war began because rich people didn’t wants to help poor people. The university students began to learn about the problem but the students began to learn about the problem but the students is few against the army.

But there were two groups called Army and Guerria, Army defending rich people and guerria defending poor people. The army killed people that is in gerria.

My grandmother says that she tried to find my grandfather but didn’t find him maybe he died or lived but we don’t know.

And now she tries again but he does not no trace, nothing about him she said that some people say that there is a place when many bodies are buried called Well. But his is the only possibility that he is buried but we don’t know.

My grandmother says that his happened like this: my grandfather was sitting down in his home, it was in the night they heard people walking outside and cars, then the army was inside everybody there: my grandmother, grandfather and her daughters.

They didn’t take them only my grandfather. They also took things a little gold, and her money when took my grandfather they said that they would come back.

But he never came back to his family. Then my grandmother changed her location and went to live in another home but she tried and tried to find him.

She worked so hard because she had her daughters. The bad thing is that her family didn’t help her and she didn’t have any help.

Far away (by Lin)

by Lin

            Today, I interview to my mother. Her name is San San. She is from Burma. I interview about War and Sickness of her father and her father’s family escaped from WWII in Burma. First, her father name is Chu King Ah. Chu was 15 years old, when the war started in his country. Chu was live with his parents, eleven brother and sister, his grandfather and grandmother.

In 1942, the enemy occupied to the Burma. The enemy was Japan. The reason that he and his family had to escape from his country was the place that they lived was the border of China and Burma. As I knew from interviewee Japan occupied the China first, but Japanese were not successful occupied the China. So, the way they back, they occupied the Burma. Another reason that Chu and his whole family, maybe other Burmese people were escaping because it was dangerous and Japanese soldiers were caught all the girls and women then, they killed all men and children by cut their heads. Ok, this is too cruel. Let move it up. So, that’s why Chu and his whole family was decide to escape from icy mountain to China because it’s easier to hide in the mountain and safer in the China. It was difficult to escape from Burma and get to the mountain because they have to hide many places to not let the Japanese to find out that they were escaping.

Then, they have to sneak out with their own power, that time no body were helping each other, except their family. The main reason Chu and his whole family   escaped to China because China was safer than Burma. Also, Chu and his whole family were Chinese. So, they all could speak Chinese to survive in China. On the way they got the big problem. Chu’s father and his grandfather got ill. The name of illness was “Deep Mosquito Mountain”. This illness can let human body have very low temperature and when bacteria get into brain that person will die. The first tragedy started was on the top of the mountain. Chu’s grandfather was dead and second person was his father. His father was dead in bottom of the icy mountain. They both were died by that illness called “Deep Mosquito Mountain”. Then, they got into China and the place they lived was Guangdong, Jiangmen, Taishan. Then, they lived in there about 3 years and Chu was went back first and check if it’s safe to let his whole family came back. This time, Chu used different way to back to the Burma. He used boat because it’s the easy and the fastest way but it’s also very expensive. After, one week Chu sends a letter to his family about Burma was safe to come back. Then, Chu’s family went back to Burma. At last, Chu and his family met at Burma and lived happily again.

The war in horn Africa

My dad name Ogbu he is from Eritrea. When he was seven years old1 there was a war between two country Eritrea and Ethiopia, this war started because Ethiopia Cloned Eritrea and then Eritrea Liberate after that Eritrea fought against Ethiopia for 30 years. But there was break out in may1998 about the control or ownership in small land. At the end of the war Ethiopia held all of the disputed territory and had advanced into Eritrea After the war ended, the Eritrea–Ethiopia Boundary Commission, a body founded by the UN, established that the disputed territory at the heart of the conflict belongs to Eritrea. As of 2013, Ethiopia still occupies the territory.  And it hasn’t ended yet now there is no war no peace between the two countries. When the war started it was very severe and destructive many people lost their lives. And many people became disabled and a lot of property where destroyed. Half million people died in between the two country. The most difficult for my father was they weren’t peace just war and they don’t have enough food or supplies of necessities. When he was young he saw such as bad things like children lost their father and mother and parents lost their children or they become disabled. From that time it was hard to live in the city. My dad decides to go to other ruler area. And the place he went is hard to live because its small city it covered by trees and animals it like forest but my dad where hiding in cave because the Ethiopian soldiers where everywhere. And my dad said war is war is sense. The bad thing was women have to fight to because they weren’t enough mans to fight for the war and the women’s are like 30 percent. But Eritrea is  one of the world's poorest countries, and Ethiopia one of the oldest—spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the war, and suffered tens of thousands of casualties as a direct consequence of the conflict which resulted in minor border changes and even Ethiopia have a lot of money or supply the don’t win the war.