Questions About the Closing of a Refugee Camp
What?
The refugee camp comprising about 1500 people from Liberia and Sierra Leone, including me, was being closed. We were still living on the camp.
Where?
In N'zerekory region, Guinea West Africa.
When?
In 2007 June.
Who?
Among those refugees, were women and children that the UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) claim to protect.  But they closed the refugee camp on us.
The abandoned refugees had their claim. They say: "we are undecided'' meaning that they are not certain to go back to their countries because they are not sure of their personal security.
Why?
But the thing about this story is that there was nobody to attend to their claims, not even the UNHCR.
They had no protection, food, or safe drinking water. Not even good sleeping place, school for their children and the worst of all is lack of security and health care.  I worry about them.
How?
Then there arose these questions ... How will they sleep? How will they eat? How will the women and children have protection and health care?
What is their hope? I kept on thinking about them as I was fortunate to travel.
Even now I am still worried about them, because there was no sign like help coming for those women and children. Oh how can that be?