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SY: Were you there during that time of the riots?

YY: Uh-huh.

SY: And you remember any of that, what that was like, what happened?

YY: No, 'cause I didn't hear of it until later because it was after, after the riot that I learned about it.

SY: So what did you learn? How did you learn?

YY: That somebody got killed.

SY: And you remember hearing how it happened?

YY: No, what I remember, way afterwards, they were telling us why, what happened and why. But I didn't, I didn't hear about the riot until much later.

SY: It was way after it happened?

YY: Next day after it happened.

SY: So you had no, like, firsthand, nothing, no...

YY: No, I didn't know that it was going on. [Laughs]

SY: Now, is that, how did that happen?

YY: Well, I think I was asleep.

SY: And you remember where it was that they said it happened? Was it far away from where you were?

YY: Yeah, 'cause I think it was near the entrance to the camp, where it happened. And I was way on this side.

SY: And did you, what did you hear about why it happened?

YY: Well, I think that they were saying that the food was being, the good stuff was being taken by the white people, the other stuff would be given to the people in the camp. I think that was, I think that was the main thing that they were objecting to. They were saying that they were taking the food and selling it, making money and things like that. This is just all hearsay.

SY: And do you remember how, what you heard about how the guy got killed?

YY: No, I don't remember that.

SY: So it was just part of this, this kind of riot, several, lots of people involved.

YY: I think it was a very young fellow that died.

SY: So nobody you knew, as far as you knew, was involved or knew, or was around when that happened?

YY: No, I can't remember anybody.

SY: And is, did you have any kind of reaction to it? How did you feel when you heard about it?

YY: I don't know.

SY: Was it scary?

YY: No, it wasn't scary. I don't think I was scared or anything.

SY: It was just, was it shocking? Was it surprising?

YY: Yeah, it was surprising. I didn't think they would go that far. People getting killed, that's something else too.

SY: But that wouldn't, that guy who got killed, he never came to the hospital, that never affected anything that happened in the hospital?

YY: I didn't, that, I don't know 'cause I wasn't at the hospital.

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