What kind of psyche can emerge from such extermination? Will anyone who survives be able to recover?
The wounds inflicted on our souls cannot be captured by news bulletins, nor measured by statistics. They are devastating losses, lodged deep in the core of our humanity.
I ran into a friend on the street, once a university professor before this genocidal war. His face was pale, and his clothes looked as though they hadn’t been changed in months. His expression bore the weight of a lifetime of burdens.
I greeted him: “How are you?” It was a banal, hollow question, just to start a conversation. He replied: “Our dignity has been humiliated. We live in a time where thieves and looters thrive, while the honourable die of hunger and despair.”
My friend captured reality precisely in that one sentence. Society here is being re-engineered according to a deliberate policy crafted by occupying authorities.
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