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The Desperate One

My family has in some way become a victim of the war. I lost my husband at that time - he died in 1983. It was very sad for me to lose my husband - he was only 33. He was too young.  
 
     I was left with my two girls - one seven years old and one two years old. They were still very small. With no work it was very very difficult for me without him. But I stopped helping my parents - I cut myself off and said: "From now on I'll only take care of my two girls, only them."  
 
     I'm almost certain that it was the army. Perhaps some feel that there is an air of confidence, but personally I don't. Not at all, not at all. Because I don't see much hope, and the peace agreements were nothing but papers to me... And when I look at almost all the young people here, of the same age as my girls and who were left in the same situation, orphans of their father or mother or both, nearly all have this tendency of being a little rebellious, uneasy, protesting against what life has done to them.  
     There are much, much more brutal cases, such as those where they left it to the kids, who were tied up and later had to pull their parents out of the houses, or where they tortured the parents in front of the kids. There are so many cases of that. These kids, who are now young people, need special attention, because it is not easy to watch somebody being tortured. I think that some kind of help is needed, psychological and social. It is an aspect which has been neglected, and I think that these young people need attention.  
 
 
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