Entebbe – A group of 43 Ugandan students have spoken of their trauma after fleeing the US and Israeli bombing campaign in Iran and returning to Uganda on Thursday.
“It was scary, traumatising and I wouldn’t wish for anyone to experience” such a thing, Twiine told reporters at Entebbe International Airport in Uganda.
Another of the students, Oscar Nyegyema, said a site near their university was hit by an air strike.
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“We could hear the ground trembling, we could hear the ground shake. We were all scared, we were all feeling devastated, we really did not know whether we could make it out,” he said.
Despite the trauma, Nyegyema said he would return to finish his programme in Iran as soon as possible.
Some Ugandan students chose to stay despite the offer of return from their government.
“The truth is for these students, they believe that if they return home, the two years spent in their four-year degree study may go to waste because they may not be able to afford the ticket back to the university,” said Aloisius Ssegawa, another of the students who returned on Thursday.
Twiine said she was “traumatised” by the experience.
“I love to study, I love to practice what I will learn from Iran but I think I will have to get therapy first,” she said.
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Source: AFP
