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detainees go towards the refectory, T. manages to escape with the two men with thecomplicity of a guard who opens the gate. The same guard had enabled the twofake soldiers to enter inside the fence.“The traffickers”, maintains T., “had already taken money so they worked tothe end. If we are sent back 10 times, each 10 times they have to take us back, theirwork is by good or bad luck. Sometimes there is good luck for one month: theypass with 100, 200 persons, and are not stopped. (…) They [the traffickers, Ed.]want cash, it is not that you pay half and when you arrive you pay the other half,you pay all but at all costs they send you to Italy, their work is like that ”.After the escape T. is lodged in a house which is inside the cemetery of Kievand in the basement of which are people of Philippine nationality. She spends aweek there at the end of which one morning the two men that had liberated her(who in the meantime she discovers been Italian) return with two lorries full ofpersons who had been interned inside the camp.“Then” she says “they took these lorries and changed the car plates, they hadpainted them, inside the cemetery they changed the colour, had written somethingin some language. One went away and returned with wood. Because before thepeople were all standing, bent over. It is a question of about half an hour, theysaid, but the journey never ends. They had made some seats inside the lorry, underand above in two levels. Outside they had closed the lorry so if they should scream,no one could hear them and they also put air-conditioning inside with a tubeabove. They made the work there, the people were underground and I could seefrom the window. I did not know what was going on ”.The stay inside the cemetery was prolonged for another week. From January, atthe time of departure, it is almost March when D. reappeared and said “Today youare free, we will enter Hungary, so that you can stay in a good house, and we willwait until we can leave”. The group were loaded on to a lorry and departed in thedirection of the border. After a few hours of travel they were stopped by the police.D. escaped and the other traffickers opened the lorry and let the people escapetowards the wood.The group walked through the entire night in mud and then on ice until thetraffickers accompanying them order them to stop and wait. They are in the middleof the wood, it is cold and there is ice on the ground. Without guides they remainthere for three days without eating or drinking.“We slept and we woke, slept and woke, slept and woke, three days withouteating, sitting in the middle of ice, we don’t feel the cold anymore. TheseBangladeshis take the ice with their cloths, they tied it up and after there weresome drops of water coming from the ice and they put this in their mouths [todrink, Ed.]. Even we Africans have started to do this”.After three days two people arrived, different from the ones who hadabandoned us, and they took us to the plains and transported us amongst bales ofhay in small groups on tractors and carts pulled by horses. Arriving near a largeplain they abandon the tractors and carts and stop in a house. After we had rested,the escorts make all of us 93 people mount horses in couples.