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Haitians have no exit

Over and over I replay in my head the implications of what we've just done. We told the Haitians that we couldn't physically stop their government from torturing and killing, but that if they told us in detail who was doing it and how, we'd bear witness and seek justice. Eventually the world would …

—p.169 Emergency Sex (and Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone Condition Charlie (89) by Andrew Thomson
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just to open your stupid American court

I've been seeing a Swiss girl who works for the Red Cross. It's their job to collect the bodies those big Malaysian guns cut down when we returned fire. The next day she comes stomping into the mess hall looking for me, wild-eyed, dripping with sweat, seething, 'You killed twenty Somalis just to op…

—p.149 Condition Charlie (89) by Kenneth Cain
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fifteen percent of our salaries

He has a funny look on his face; he wants to tell me something. 'Hey, Ken, you know why your boss was so insistent to open the courts and have judges paid salaries, right?' His eyes are twinkling like the sun off the Indian Ocean on the other side of this hard-scrabble court.

I'm trying to think…

—p.144 Condition Charlie (89) by Kenneth Cain
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