"I knew I would die." Sudanese woman haunted by attack that forced her to flee into Ethiopia SHERKOLE #Refugee Camp, Ethiopia, February 24 (UNHCR) – five months after the day she fled from #Sudan's Blue Nile State, Gisman Usman still struggles with the trauma that caused her to seek refuge in #Ethiopia: The bombing of the place where she slept, her missing three brothers, and the loss of her left leg. On the September night when the Antonov bomber arrived over her grandmother's home in Derem, the 20-year-old awoke to a blast that ripped away the back of her tin-roof house. Her first instinct was to run. But Usman couldn't move; her leg had been badly wounded. The memories of her ordeal arrive to her in ghostlike fragments that linger in the night and prohibit sleep... She remembers people calling for an ambulance to come from the nearby town of Kurmuk on the border with Ethiopia. Her mother, Soriah Ibrahim, 40, spoke to her with as much calm as she could muster. "My mother told me 'you have to be patient. You have to stop crying,'" Usman said. "I didn't believe her words. I thought she was lying to me. I knew I would die." Read the full Gisman's story: http://bit.ly/yV2RMM Source: #UNHCR