Lynda Schuster's comments from The Final Days of Dr. Doe, from Granta 48 Schuster, Lynda. The Final Days of Dr. Doe.
Refugees appear with horror stories.
But because the war is happening out there, out in the bush where the government press doesn't go, we in the capital can deny its gravity. The killing becomes a sickness, a rottenness infecting everyone, destroying the stuff that holds a people together.