"I do not know if my reaction comes from pride or if it's a survival instinct. I know only this; that to be fully alive rather than to survive, is a way of punishing them. It's the only revenge possible to me."
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Shadows of life, death and survival in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide. Scielo. (January 2015)
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