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"In a civil war, death is an intimate", Af-Laawe said. "You´re killed by a person with whom you´ve shared intimacies, and who will kill you, believing that he will benefit from your death. And when you think seriously about an entire country going up in civil war flames, then you´ll agree that "intimacy" is more complicated."

"Was this what his beloved country had been reduced to, a land where the elders were unaware of being out of touch with the times, and where the young were armed and not right in the head, killing without remorse?"

"As he walked past one knot of bystanders, he heard a whisper: "What manner of a man chases away the elders of his clan, and in the same afternoon risks his life to save a bitch?"