Hello! My name is Asma Adaeva. I was born in Grozny, the capital city of Chechnya. Now I live in Villach, Austria. I want to say something about my life.<\/p>\n
I was outside with my mother when the great war started. The soldiers fired over our heads and I thought it was over for us but we ran into the cellar. During the night I couldn’t sleep. My mother was crying almost every night and it was frightening me too. I had the feeling that I would die. On the day that this great war began, no one was in Grozny. We went back to Nazran at that time. After a while there was not such a big war in Grozny so we went back. It looked terrible. Our home was broken from a bombing so we went to stay at our friends house. The soldiers came to us and threw all the toys that I had around the bed. Then we had to leave our homeland. We wanted to go to Europe and so here we are.<\/p>\n
I cannot remember everything about our trip but I know we came by train. In the first days it was really hard to be in Austria as I couldn’t speak German. I liked the beauty of Austria though. After that I started to go school and it became better and better. Since then I have made many friends. Now it is just a bit difficult but not like before. I often watch television and I do not like when somebody calls me a foreigner and says that they would shoot us in other countries. If someone came to my country, I would help them.<\/p>\n
When I finish school, I want to become a teacher or a police officer. I like Austria a lot. I think of both Chechnya and Austria as my home. One thing that I know well is that to live in war is really hard.<\/p>\n
I have always wanted to ask Putin: Why did you destroy our house? Why have you ruined my school? Why did you send your soldiers to our homeland? We have not done anything.<\/p>\n
I wish everyone a nice and good life.<\/p>\n
Asma Adaeva<\/strong> *The letter was translated by Waynakh Online and edited by Michael Capobianco<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello! My name is Asma Adaeva. I was born in Grozny, the capital city of Chechnya. Now I live in Villach, Austria. I want to say something about my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1942,301],"class_list":["post-8224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-asma-adaeva","tag-grozny"],"views":5902,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8226,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224\/revisions\/8226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n13 year old Chechen refugee in Austri<\/p>\n