Daudi Abuneli, 61, the local council leader of Kamango trading centre, "It took us more than three hours to walk by foot from Kamango to here. People were tired and other collapsed and fainted.
It was around 5am on Thursday morning when I heard gunshots. I then ordered my family members to flee and everyone began to move on their own. Other people ran away. I saw soldiers. As I remained in hiding, I heard them speak a language I could not comprehend. But I believed it was Arabic and Luganda. Their Swahili was distinct from Congo. At one time, the group of gunmen conducted Muslim prayers in my front yard as I hid. They had guns and were in military combat. It was a big number but I did not count them. The shooting last about three hours and subsided, with intermittent gunshots that went on until noon."
-Christine Tabo, 33, mother of 10 children and resident of Kamango. "I am worried that my children may get malaria because there are many mosquitoes in the night. I gave birth when I was fleeing to Uganda on Thursday. My baby boy is yet to be christened, but I think I will call him Enock Malemo because he was born in flight. Malemo in my Lubwisi language translates to mean 'hardship.' I am not sure that we will be safe back in Congo. But I am worried about my property which I left in Kamango. There are thieves there now."
- Julienne Abwooli, 30, "I too gave birth to a baby boy. It is my 5th child. I plan to name him Erith Mateso. In Lubwisi Mateso means 'suffering.' I am not sure whether we will be safe if we go back to Congo. But even here where we are camped, we have not eaten any food."
-Joyce Bambuniaki, 30, "My worry is that since I delivered, I am not eating enough and this means that I don't have breast milk for my baby. This is my 12th baby. I will name him Mazalibu which means being affected by a sudden and untimed catastrophe."
-John Apollo Kibulya, the health inspector of Bubandi Sub County said, "The situation in the camp is worsening. At Bubandi Primary School where the displaced people are camped, there are very many people, yet there are only two VIP latrines in a school with a total enrolment of 674 children. They are fetch water from a nearby stream, yet they are using the bushes as a toilet. Within a week, we shall have an outbreak of cholera if the situation does not change."
-Gertrude Njitina, 60, "The attackers spoke in indistinct Swahili which was comprehensible but was not the Swahili spoken in Congo. I saw them physically and they talked to me but their Swahili was hard to understand. But we don't want to be relocated from Bubandi Primary School. If the Uganda is to assist us, they should assist us from here without relocating us."
-Lawrence Alimansi, 61 said, "At around 8am, two soldiers came and told us to leave the trading centre. They were young men in new military uniform. They were polite at first. But after greeting, they ordered us to leave the trading centre. They were forceful. But their Swahili was not Congolese. In Congolese Swahili, we greet 'Jambo Bwana.' But they greeted me as, 'Onasemaji Bwana.'"
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