Joan Schraith Cole

…were not just any kids — they were kids of a specific ethnicity. The kids, it seems, “disappeared”. Does that meet the bar of a crime against humanity? Go ahead and think about it. I want you to consider it very carefully. As if you were on the jury, at just such a trial. Because in any court trying such crimes, “disappearing” 1500 children of a certain ethnicity would almost surely be enough to bring about an indictment.

…. I was a young woman he an older, upset man, the two of us in an enclosed space for hours to come. I had spent a lifetime learning not to put my hand on the hot stove of men’s agitation. Maybe you have, too.