"When we were first freed, I looked at life like a little child looks at Christmas presents," she says.
It was not until 1996 that they were at long last allowed to leave Morocco and move to Paris. After being recaptured, they were once again placed under house arrest, where their living conditions were much more comfortable still, they were not really free. The book recounts the time they spent racing around Casablanca and Tangier, looking for help from old family friends, relatives, embassies and foreign reporters. In April 1987, they hatched an escape plan and, using a spoon, their fingernails and a sardine can lid, they dug their way to freedom. Only through listening to their radio and telling stories were they able to preserve their will to live. They were driven to eating anything, even bread littered with vermin droppings. The hardest thing was to master it," Oufkir writes of those long years in her cell. "We saw it, we felt it, it was tangible, monstrous, threatening. "I lived with a permanent fear in the pit of my stomach: fear of being killed, beaten or raped, fear of constant humiliation," she writes.
Rocks and shreds of dirty paper were his only toys. She and her sisters and brothers spent much of their youth there her youngest brother, only 3 when he was jailed, grew up in a cell. Eventually, they were moved to Bir-Jdid, a prison barrack about 25 miles from Casablanca, where they were locked in separate cells. Urn:oclc:805331571 Republisher_date 20120922075314 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120921224526 Scanner and her family remained imprisoned for 20 years. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:18:15 Boxid IA15176 Boxid_2 CH130503 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1.
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