let us exchange refugee stories!

[JolieFille]

Because of the civil war, we all became refugees in exile, but whats your story? ! avoid talking about Qabil and politics in this topix.


It was a beautiful spring day in January 1991 when the war came to Mogadishu, there was fierce fighting in the city between the government and rebels, mass murder and looting became a part of life in Mogadishu, it was at this time that my family fled together with the military, all the way to Kismayio, from here we sailed with a dangerous boat all the way to Kenya, lived 4 months in the refugee camp Utanga, in the beginning, we were 500 people in the camp, eventually we had increased to 100000 refugees from Mogadishu, it was actually nice to be in Utanga, I was enrolled in a school and sports club, at evening we were all sitting together and talking about life in Mogadishu... after 4 months, my family were taken to Denmark by the UN and I haved since lived in exile. I hope we all once again will live in our beautiful homeland amen!

[HELWAA]

Did't you post this before?

[JolieFille]

Did't you post this before?

No, why?

[HELWAA]

I'm sure i've seen this post before walle..it must be one of ur other nicks.

[JolieFille]

I'm sure i've seen this post before walle..it must be one of ur other nicks.

WTF just because other people posted about being refugee dosen't mean that it was me tell you story or

[HalfBked]

The war did not come to Xamar on January '91, it started on December 26th, 1990.

[JolieFille]

The war did not come to Xamar on January '91, it started on December 26th, 1990.

I was living in southern Mogadishu, the war was in northern mogadishu in december mont.....

[HELWAA]

Sorry i've no refugee story to tell.The problem with liars is they never remembr their lies.As somalis say beeni raad ma leh.

[Nabeela]

Helwaa you are right, she/he did post this before, just recycling the same old stories.

[JolieFille]

Helwaa you are right, she/he did post this before, just recycling the same old stories.

Nobody is forcing you to take part.

[HELWAA]

Thanks Nabeela for confirming it.





Jolyfil

Easy huuno but before you make up a story just make sure you know the history well.

[Cumar-Labasuul]

There was already a long thread on this viewtopic.php?f=18&t=256879

But anyway here's mine:

The day SNM came into the Hargeisa, the whole city was under curfew from dhuhur time till SNM strode into the city at night. Initially we thought that this clash would just cool over within a few days so we walked to family in miyiga (balayga cas). After a couple of days there we realised that this war could take months if not a couple of years so we made the decision to cross the border to dulcad. When we reached abaarso we spent the night there and from what I was told that was one of the worst nights, the whole area was empty except for dozens and dozens of baboons who made us tense the whole night. Funnily enough my family said they were more scared of being caught by faqash soldiers than being attacked by 20 or so baboons.
Anyway long story short, we got to the border in which case we stayed at our 5star accomodation at dulcad (just kidding ) for a month or two we then travelled to dire dawa where we caught the train to djibouti. We stayed for about a year in djibouti with family and then travelled to addis to get our visa then flew out to london.

[JolieFille]

[quote="Cumar-Labasuul"]

Did you walk all the way from Hargeysa to the Hawd?

[JolieFille]

Were you afraid of being rejected visa at the embassy?

[DR-YALAXOOW]

it was oktoobar 1990 my uncel and his family was planning to move cairo egypt, my uncel was working in that time Arab leage( jaamacada carabta) it was the start of 1990 my uncle gott top job in Arab leage headquarter in cairo.
My father convinced my uncel that i dr yalaxoow as 16 years old in that time should fellow my adeer to cairo for studying.

ME and my uncels family left Somalia 9 oktoobar 1991 at mogadishu airport newly bought airplane of Somali airlens. it was middle of night. the plane left mogadishu att 12 Am night. in early morning we landed ciaro.

i remember it was whole new world for me. cairo we lived place called caguuuza near Somali ambassador office.
when civil war started i was in cairo chilling relaxing. unlike my family scaped from mogadishu to balcad when worst fighting was going on from 26 dicembar 1990 to 26 feberaayo 1991 when siyaad bare left mogadishu.


the middle of 1991 i gott fake swedhish passport and my uncel paid 500 dollar which was big money in that time to immigration officals of cairo airport. friday may 1991 i landed stockholm. after couple of days in stockholm was was transferred a north pole city in sweden called kIRUNA WHICH the summer time the sun never sets down, 24 hours sunlight. and the winter is 24 hours dark. i was living there about 2 years until 1993.

since then now 20 years im in sweden.