One summer day, our task was to collect special mountain herbs for export. As we got deeper into the mountain, one of the boys became frightened and said. “Let’s go back. We came too far.” Another boy replied. “No. we have a few hours before sunset. Let’s move further.” We were moving further away from our school.
Suddenly, a child fell down the slope and disappeared from our sight. We heard his screaming, “Help!” When we reached the bottom, we saw barbed wire and a tall watch tower at some distance. We came to the end of the settlement and there was a trap! The child fell into the trap but luckily a tree root held him up halfway. He was hanging just above the sharp spikes at the bottom. But some spikes pierced through one of his legs.
We heard a lot about the horrible security devices around the detention settlement but this was the first time we actually saw one.
We were so frightened that we threw away all the herbs we had collected that day and ran away from the spot with the wounded boy on our backs.
