When she was two months old, her mother became sick with typhoid and was taken to hospital. She never saw her mother again. Then her father passed away when she was two years old. She was raised by her grandmother. My girlfriend used to come and sleep over at my place. This got us in trouble. One night, the red ballet soldiers came to my place.
They struck me with batons, kicked and trampled on me. That is how I got these scars on my forehead, mouth and knee. It was a horrific experience…. She moved to another province and rented a room at a lodge, but her girlfriend followed.
The soldiers came and viciously attacked them. They then moved to Jinji District. In Jinji a mob attacked them; they were dragged from the house and beaten nearly to death. Ainebyona ran away. She assumes her girlfriend also managed to escape. Until today she does not know what happened to her girlfriend. She said she is too scared to search for her on social media. A truck driver who ferried me to Namanga raped me. I had no choice; all I wanted was to escape Uganda.
She stayed for a few weeks in Tunduma doing odd jobs to get money for transport and food to cross over to South Africa. She did not know that it is legal to be a lesbian in South Africa, so she did not disclose that she is a lesbian.
She also did not tell them that she had almost been killed in Uganda for being a lesbian. She gave wrong information and her asylum was rejected.
