There were military vehicles with people tied to the exhaust pipes, dragging them to death. - Monica Nashandi

Imagine that kind of resolve — not telling your mother you are leaving your family and fleeing the country.

Traditionally, women were supposed to be confined to the kitchen — that is exploitation. And then they were exploited by the system because it favored men over women.

They would come at night and harass us before school started. Then they would go into the classrooms with their weapons and kick out the teachers to disrupt the school. We were so scared.