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When the euphoria of safety fades( A( j6 S, N4 \( S2 \
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By [EMAIL=\"obrien@lfpress.com\"]JENNIFER O\'BRIEN[/EMAIL], SUN MEDIA
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</td></tr></tbody></table> A fuzzy alligator at the front door, teddy bears on a shelf. More than 40 stuffed animals crowd couches, chairs -- every surface in the living room of Chantal Hadija Lomoyo\'s London apartment.
0 ]- I4 |. ?) n) v' L1 @ The heat is cranked, as is the television, which blasts African Christian videos into this cheerful chaos. Amid Dollarama wall decor that includes a plastic fish, silk flowers and a G.I. Joe doll, the overabundance of used unlit Christmas tree lights somehow fit in here. / g$ k3 s, L8 o8 [
\"She won\'t take it down,\"says Ally Mbirize, Hadija Lomoyo\'s roommate, grinning as he gestures to holiday garland that has been hanging from the ceiling since Christmas. \"She says it makes her happy . . . so that\'s OK, that\'s no problem. The teddy bears keep her company when I am not home.\" ' ^5 t5 y, [# M
Usually, though, he makes sure they are both home at the same time. , F9 q5 S, V8 r8 W, P; }' X
A year after she arrived in Canada, a refugee who had been tortured by warriors in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Hadija Lomoyo still doesn\'t like to be alone.
0 ~2 m8 p, u0 o1 a/ V% t When she is alone, she thinks too much.
& P- [ c/ x2 z The first things you notice about 22-year-old Hadija Lomoyo are physical. She is usually done up, chunky gold jewelry, vibrant makeup, blond, braided extensions. 8 o' ?- [. O8 m& V0 N
She uses a cane to compensate for her paralysed right leg. The visible scars she suffers -- a trough-like indentation that runs up the top of her leg, a missing kneecap and a deformed foot that barely gets into her used winter boots -- are obvious. 5 a7 _ B/ d' p1 W: z5 \
But like many refugees who have survived torture and war, her physical injuries are nothing compared to the mental torture Hadija Lomoyo deals with five years after the horrifying incident that will haunt her forever. , W3 a$ k$ b, a, }
She was a 17-year-old nursing student in 2002, near the end of Congo\'s brutal five-year-war, when she was 9 a) [3 Y2 K( D$ r# c, P! X
kidnapped with a peer during a raid. The warriors, she says, used some of the terrifying tactics that have been
* Z5 l8 n9 k- B5 _1 A2 i3 Q1 Q& ]& c documented by Human Rights Watch during the war. The men killed her friend first, she says, and ate the teen\'s raw flesh. Then they turned to Hadija Lomoyo, intending to do the same. The angry men cut into her, ate her flesh in front of her eyes, but spit it out, saying she didn\'t taste right.
. P+ U, `, I/ m They left her to die, and part of her did. 7 P1 n: s9 f" \* H1 X& Y" X1 }0 k
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Exactly one year ago, Hadija Lomoyo arrived in Canada with her then-husband, a man who helped take care of her after she was attacked by thugs while living in a Ugandan slum.
$ y% C* X" k: r- r/ Q They were sponsored by a church in Chatham through the federal government\'s Joint Assistance Program, meant especially for refugees with special needs. Through the program, a private sponsor helps the newcomers with living arrangements and local needs, while the government helps financially. |
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