Betsan Llwyd

ALT After the army gathered the families they were led from inside the school to another location, and it was here that the crowds were separated — children in one place, men in another, and women in yet another. Mothers saw their children lying on the ground and screamed without being able to reach out to them, as any of the mothers who attempted to move were either shot directly by the soldiers, or by quadcopter drones hovering overhead.

ALT As for the women and children, the soldiers made the women climb out of the ditch one woman at a time, ordered them to pick up a child from the ground at random, and told to walk in a predetermined route that took them south. Women were forced to pick up children who were not their own at the army’s orders and made to march on, leaving their own children behind and hoping that some other woman would pick them up.