My neighbor, Batul Adam was captured as well. Her beautiful daughters were taken captive and given to northern masters. What has happened to these children who once lived next-door to me is typical. Arab raiders grab them and tie their legs to horses, and then ride hundreds of miles to the north. The children get deep wounds that will never heal.
Some wounds are fatal.
There is a powerful ideology that drives these slave raids. Whether Christian, Muslim, or animist, we should be slaves forever. We are an inferior being who must submit or be killed. In five minutes, our lives had been changed forever. We huddled in the brush, and we kept crying and crying in the dark.