Authors
Jenny Hedström, Zin Mar Phyo
Publication date
2020/10/19
Journal
International feminist journal of politics
Volume
22
Issue
5
Pages
765-777
Publisher
Routledge
Description
Agnes speaks about what she has seen. She repeats the story about the child running with her little brother in a basket on her back, and the little brother being dead. This is the second time she tells the story, when the age of the children in the story sinks in. The girl running is no older than four or five; the dead boy, in the basket, a year or two younger. Their age seems impossible. How did this young girl learn to pick up her brother and run? How many times has she run? Where are their parents? Why is she running on her own with her now dead brother in the basket? The woman telling the story has a low voice, whispers, the recorder doesn’t quite pick up her words. Jenny strains to hear. Zin Mar Phyo looks as if she will cry as Agnes relays in detail the blood on the dead child in the basket, the blood covering the sister, as she explains how she and her uncle drag these two children, one dead, one alive, into their …
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