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Aziza Hakda

: They now call Calgary home, according to CBC. You can understand why Aziza Hakda still can't watch a film with scenes of gunfire. With #yyc Refugee, we feature some of the people who have made that journey in the past. The sound takes her back to the most frightening time of her life. "They started capturing and murdering people," recalls Aziza, who witnessed victims being shot and corpses paraded around on the end of bayonets. "I don't think we slept without piling furniture against the front door." Frightening days indeed. The year was 1971. We left with the clothes we were wearing on our back, a brown paper bag full of cloth diapers and baby milk.' Aziza Hakda came from Uganda to Calgary as a refugee in 1971. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.