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3 Refuge 1 (1983-1984)

handle is hein.journals/rfgcjr3 and id is 1 raw text is: CANADA'S PERIODICAL ON REFUGEES REFUGE October 1983 A young girl burst into the schoolhouse frantically warning us that the soldados (soldiers) were entering the refugee camp. Elena, a Belgian teacher who coordinates the education pro- gram in one of the seven camps which constitute the larger camp of El Salvadorean refugees called Mesa Grande, rushed to the door. Rapid in- structions on the afternoon's classes were given to the teachers who were meeting with her. Hurrying through the maze of ramshackle buildings and fields, Elena explained that this was not an uncommon experience. Honduran troops (as the defense forces of the host country of these refugees) enter periodically into the camps. Haste was needed to minimize the chaos and paralysis of all work and activity which inevitably follow the sighting of the bat- talion. From the sight where most of the schools were concentrated, six soldiers could be seen half a kilometre away, entering the camp after climbing the steep hill which surrounds the plateau of Mesa Grande. The children, having fled the classroom at the news of the ap- proach of the soldiers, were scattered in the fields, observing from a distance the movement of the troops. In an attempt to restore order, Elena encouraged the teachers to resume classes and treat the incident as a regular event that should not disturb essential activities. Elena then turned to the kids who, after being called, slowly made their way back to class in time to finish the last ten minutes of school. Meanwhile, the soldiers continued to meander through the camp, waving their rifles or sticks at the refugees. The Salvadoreans had ceased whatever they were doing to watch with trepidation and fear, despite the frequency of military visits, as the soldiers (who to the refugees were indistinguishable from those they had fled back home) passed by. (Continued on p. 3) a © Jeremy Adelman, 1983. This open-access work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits use, reproduction and distribution in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author(s) are credited and the original publication in Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees is cited. Vol. 3 No. 1 The Insecurity of El Salvadorean Refugees by Jeremy Adelman *00N

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