The electric power comes and goes. It’s annoying to sit in a dark cell with only a candle, and with no fan, radio or lights. It’s very hot. Josh thinks it could be up to 40 degrees Celsius. Apparently it’s the warm season.
There is still a lot of malaria, and they pour diesel in the drain every other day to kill the mosquito eggs.
Tjostolv has been sick with something that could be malaria. Joshua had a headache with symptoms of malaria the day before I spoke with him. But he wasn’t sure if this was malaria.
Joshua asked me to write this:
“Yesterday I stitched up a guy with a deep cut in his abdomen. It was a razor cut, and you could see right into his abdomen. I stitched two stitches, cleaned it carefully and covered it. We let the bottom part of the wound be open so that infection fluids could come out. We treated him again today.”
He also told me to write this:
“Our situation now is that it has been about two months since we got sentenced to death again. We have no information about what happens next. This has developed into a hostage situation where it appears that local people in power refuse to let the case take its course without them getting some money out of it. The situation is no different from the hostages taken by pirates in Somalia.”
