As you read the following, I want you to imagine living it - right here, right now, affecting you and everyone around you.

I want you to imagine walking around your neighbourhood, desperately searching for food, water and medicine, only to find dead bodies lying in the streets. Imagine hiding with your loved ones, waiting for a chance to escape, hoping things might somehow improve.

Imagine that moment never arriving, and instead, the hell that we had all lived through for the last 18 months was about to get unimaginably worse.

"When the fighting finally erupted, it was as if the sky itself was falling. I saw many people being killed in the streets, including women and children, struck down by random gunfire and stray bullets. I saw children running alone, most likely separated from fami

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