Before the War I Had Toys
Children of Grozny
Aza Bakhayeva (10 years old)
Used to live at: Kalinin poselok, Zhukovskaya 161, Grozny
”Dad was injured by shrapnel. The Russian soldiers were shooting randomly from an armoured car and they killed two women and my father. Our house was destroyed. We live at a neighbour’s. They let us live with them. They are very nice people. They have given us one of their rooms. There are five of us: my three sisters, mum, my aunt and I.
The war started because of the fight between the Russian soldiers and the Wahabbi Muslims. The Wahabbis are very bad people, the Russians are bad too. My father wasn’t Wahabbi, and the Russian soldiers killed him. I’m afraid, because they shoot so much. Yesterday, bullets hit our backyard. I was at home. I was scared, but I didn’t hide. They say that another war will begin again.
I love my mum the best of all and my sisters too. We do not have any electricity, because the town is destroyed. Also people have stolen all the wires. I still remember when Grozny was full of lights. I was five years old; the trams were still running then.
I love to sing and paint.”
Aza is a very talented girl; she is an excellent singer and a painter. Her father died after he was wounded in his chest.
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