THE QUESTION
Why do the people behind atrocities escape justice?
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Nobody counted our dead until a foreigner died
Narrower than it reads — the wider claim is someone else's card.
We do the work and they hold the mandate and the visibility
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Neutrality is demanded of us and not of those who armed them
We needed a road closed in March and got flour in September
Our own organisations are told they lack capacity
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Funding goes to an international agency that subcontracts to us
Balance is a property of coverage, not of what happened
We are described as a community, never consulted as one
Nobody coordinated, so we relived it eleven times
We are asked to testify for a court and not asked what would have stopped it
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A country becomes real to them when their own citizens are in it
Aid arrives after the killing and is called a response
Justice is offered as a substitute for protection
Not an accusation: an institution can do this with everyone acting in good faith.
The people in danger are never in the room where it is decided
Meaning the general pattern, not one case.
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We were interviewed eleven times by eleven organisations
Nobody came back to tell us what happened to what we sent
Nobody has ever asked us what warning would have been believed
The evidence we gave was used in a report we never saw
Narrower than it reads — the wider claim is someone else's card.
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The people who decide have never met anyone from there
Not an accusation: an institution can do this with everyone acting in good faith.
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Passports decide whose death is an event
Our relatives were killed and that is called bias
We told them, with names and dates, and were asked for more evidence
To be precise: this is about the mechanism, not anyone's motives.
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A generation grows up in a place designed for six months
Each one needed our testimony for its own report
Meaning the general pattern, not one case.
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Acting early is politically costly and acting late is not punished
Being from here is treated as a conflict of interest
A local organisation cannot get insurance, so it cannot get the grant
To be precise: this is about the mechanism, not anyone's motives.
Every state judges the case by what it costs them
The word 'both sides' was used about a house with a family in it
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The report was published in a language we do not read
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We were warned to be careful because the diaspora is emotional
The camp is built and the return is never planned
Scope: the last two decades, not all history.