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Caroline's home in the camp

“I stay with my Aunt Filder," says Caroline. "My father stays in town. My mum died when I was four…” This still brings tears to Caroline’s eyes because her mother died of stomach cancer. Filder and her family were ordered to move to Amida by the Ugandan army in 2002-03, and their home in Tangagoro was burned to stop them from returning.

Filder setting out for her village shamba (small farm), which lies just one or two km from Amida camp. Credit: Geoff Sayer/Oxfam
Filder setting out for her village shamba (small farm), which lies just one or two km from Amida camp. Credit: Geoff Sayer/Oxfam
 

Caroline’s Aunt Filder explains: “Our old home is just a mile or so from here. We came to Amida camp in 2003. It was soldiers who burnt our house. That’s how they make sure you stay at the camp. But we are guarded here, and we at least feel safe at night. Once when I was at home I saw the rebels, and what they did. They came to our house and abducted a woman and attacked people with pangas (large knives), so we were afraid.

 

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