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I work every day now to erase [the] language of ruin, to destroy it and replace it with language of my own. With konona (rape, ruin), you’re told, there is no antidote, no cleansing agent. […] You’re polluted, you’re worthless—that’s it.

— Clemantine Wamariya The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story About War and What Comes After (2018)

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