Only God knows why the soldiers believed her
Posted: 24 Mar 2016, 17:41
It was my sophomore year of business administration at the National University and the fifth year in the civil war. The last few years were definitely the worst. As well as the guerrilla the army recruited and abducted young people who could help them. My sister and I lived in apartment 23 on the third floor of the building. It was now two years since we had gone to the capital without the help of our mother. She, terrified by the severity of the conflict in the capital and more in the university, decided to take away her help, hoping we decided not to go. The national university was known as the cradle of the guerrillas, both my sister and I had met teachers and students of brilliant minds that were given to the orders of the guerrillas for some social justice under the motto that the future would be for the people, the workers and that humanity was moving towards the conquest of a better world.
One day at about 7 at night my sister and I were each in our rooms tired from our busy day of classes and part-time jobs that along with the help of our brother who sent us money from the United States allow us to pay the tuition and the rent. We both had fallen asleep when two soldiers arrived at the building looking for all students from the National University because they had heard that members of the sect of the MER, a guerrilla sect, lived in those departments. One by one each department was inspected. When the soldiers knocked on our door and there was no answer they began to beat louder the door and a lady who lived next door said to the soldiers ¨there are no students. They are old deaf woman those living there¨ God knows why they believed them but they continued inspecting the apartments. Upon retiring they found a sheep. ¨Meeeeeer Meeeeer¨ shouted the ewe feeling the pressure and fear the students had. With a shot a soldier stop the howling of the sheep. ¨So you too are one of those MER, damn sheep¨ The next day the neighbors came to visit us and told us what had happened, partly because they were worried about us and partly because they wanted to know why we had not opened the door. We told them we had come tired and we had both gone to bed early and we had not heard anything.
That one time we were saved by that lady who came in our defense. It was not that we got along so well with her. Most of the time we were not at home and usually we went only to sleep. But only God knows why the lady came out to defend us and why the soldiers believed her.
One day at about 7 at night my sister and I were each in our rooms tired from our busy day of classes and part-time jobs that along with the help of our brother who sent us money from the United States allow us to pay the tuition and the rent. We both had fallen asleep when two soldiers arrived at the building looking for all students from the National University because they had heard that members of the sect of the MER, a guerrilla sect, lived in those departments. One by one each department was inspected. When the soldiers knocked on our door and there was no answer they began to beat louder the door and a lady who lived next door said to the soldiers ¨there are no students. They are old deaf woman those living there¨ God knows why they believed them but they continued inspecting the apartments. Upon retiring they found a sheep. ¨Meeeeeer Meeeeer¨ shouted the ewe feeling the pressure and fear the students had. With a shot a soldier stop the howling of the sheep. ¨So you too are one of those MER, damn sheep¨ The next day the neighbors came to visit us and told us what had happened, partly because they were worried about us and partly because they wanted to know why we had not opened the door. We told them we had come tired and we had both gone to bed early and we had not heard anything.
That one time we were saved by that lady who came in our defense. It was not that we got along so well with her. Most of the time we were not at home and usually we went only to sleep. But only God knows why the lady came out to defend us and why the soldiers believed her.