Spiritual damage

• "We stared at the menu... We gazed out of the, window... Stared at the cutlery"


  Witnessing the atrocities of the Rwandan genocide has scarred the entire group as there humour and enjoyment has disappeared.
• "Through roadblock after roadblock manned by drunken Hutu militiamen"


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• "Machete-wielding thugs... some dangled their grenades through the open windows of our vehicles"


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• "This was not something I could convey with words or photographs or film"


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• "Journalism was at best a limited vehicle of expression"


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• "The truest expression of the Rwandan experience. Ours was an inarticulacy born of sorrow, fear and incomprehension."
• "All the poor ruined humanity I encountered"
• "To witness genocide is to feel not only the chill of your own mortality, but the degradation of all humanity."


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• "The smell of the rotting dead would drift out"

  Blunt sentence illustrates the harsh reality of the true atmosphere to the reader.