Gunshots and Waterfalls
This is going to be a long post...but if I broke them up, the first one would be rather disheartening, IMO.
June 16th, 2004
There was a serious AK incident last night. A young man, perhaps 19 years old, got drunk and for whatever reason (one story is that he wanted to kill someone who owed him cows for a sister and wasn't paying up, and another is that his in-laws were pressuring him to go raiding and were giving him and his wife such a bad time that he was just going to end his life), he was going to do some shooting. His wife got involved somehow, maybe trying to stop him, and they both got shot. The boy died pretty much immediately, shot through the abdomen; the girl got a neck/shoulder wound and was eventually taken to Mbale. Bob saw her and said he'll be surprised if she lives. Apparently her trachea got torn into, because she was actually breathing through the wound from the bullet.
This week has really been fraught with troubles: illness, conflict, death.
[It was also a good week in other ways, but this gives a picture of the hazardous life some people live there, and how easy it must be to discouraged in Karamoja sometimes...]
July 4th
Yesterday we went to Sipi Falls. On the way I sat with Rita Hayworth & Goldie Hawn, alias Jay & Lila Cooper, alias Mary and Kipsy.
Sipi Falls
At Sipi, I was going to wimp out and go on just the short hike because I didn't think I could make it for 3-4 hours without lunch. THankfully, Rachel talked me into it. We went to two incredible waterfalls, and also got to crawl around in a cave with crystals and bat poop, as well as see coffee and banana plants, so was very worthwhile. The only bad part is that had accidentally put dead batteries in my camera to replace dying ones, so I have no pictures.
Up close (from Kris & Craig's pictures)
June 16th, 2004
There was a serious AK incident last night. A young man, perhaps 19 years old, got drunk and for whatever reason (one story is that he wanted to kill someone who owed him cows for a sister and wasn't paying up, and another is that his in-laws were pressuring him to go raiding and were giving him and his wife such a bad time that he was just going to end his life), he was going to do some shooting. His wife got involved somehow, maybe trying to stop him, and they both got shot. The boy died pretty much immediately, shot through the abdomen; the girl got a neck/shoulder wound and was eventually taken to Mbale. Bob saw her and said he'll be surprised if she lives. Apparently her trachea got torn into, because she was actually breathing through the wound from the bullet.
This week has really been fraught with troubles: illness, conflict, death.
[It was also a good week in other ways, but this gives a picture of the hazardous life some people live there, and how easy it must be to discouraged in Karamoja sometimes...]
July 4th
Yesterday we went to Sipi Falls. On the way I sat with Rita Hayworth & Goldie Hawn, alias Jay & Lila Cooper, alias Mary and Kipsy.
Sipi Falls
At Sipi, I was going to wimp out and go on just the short hike because I didn't think I could make it for 3-4 hours without lunch. THankfully, Rachel talked me into it. We went to two incredible waterfalls, and also got to crawl around in a cave with crystals and bat poop, as well as see coffee and banana plants, so was very worthwhile. The only bad part is that had accidentally put dead batteries in my camera to replace dying ones, so I have no pictures.
Up close (from Kris & Craig's pictures)
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