Notes
“We ran and ran. The worst was when we found out: he that shot, he was disguised as a policeman. Damn.
Who should we trust then? If we call the police - it’s the guy who comes and checks or money?
But we tried to call the police! They used the damn time. So I gave my phone to Munir and asked him to update the facebook for anyone with a boat in the fjord must help us.
We ran back and forth when the shoots approached. Matti said we had to swim. But how should I handle it, never worn these boots far?
Trond Agnar suddenly appeared. He said many had tried to swim, but had swum back because it was too cold, too long, and difficult simply. But you know what? I’d rather drown than to be shot. Sorry. I took off my shirt, and with encouragement from Matti, I started to swim. It was heavy, so I had to take off my pants, too. Driitkaldt.
I swam. Matti saved me. He said the right thing and he did the right thing. He got me to swim - so far. When we had swum a piece Matti said: ‘Kamzy, now you do not look back. You should look straight ahead in the country side and think that it is your goal.’
‘Ok’ - I said. We heard shots all the time, and I’m still surprised that I or Matti was not hit.
(But, I learned later that he was there. It was therefore Matti told me to look straight ahead. He was just at the place we had just buried us. My God! And he had tried to shoot at us. We were chased)
But I swam. So there were some boats that should save us. The one boat threw lifesaving vests and had to drive on. Then came the next boat to fetch us. Even when we had reached the boat, so I could not relax. It just was not ‘yes, we are saved’ - spirit. He can still hit us with his machine gun! I put my umiddebart on the floor of the boat. I did not feel safe. Not at all.”
/ “Kamzy”, Khamshajiny Gunaratnam, Utøya survivor (blog)
