"You need to know we are refugees and have an identity. In our country we might be leaders, but here we are humiliated. You are doing it to inform the world, but documenters don’t know or understand war. It’s exhausting to teach others. They do not understand war, violence, and children born out of violence and children born without an identity."
"For 15 months, I was not able to cry. At that time my emotions were frozen. One reason some people didn’t believe me was because I was not crying."
"Sexual violence is complex for indigenous people as an ethnic aspect. Indigenous people, especially women have historically been raped from the time of conquest-60 years of war. It is painful as a collective aspect. If a woman is raped, it affects the whole people. If a man is raped, all of us people feel it. It is like it happens to all the people. It fractures the harmony, brotherhood and sisterhood, and collective feeling of indigenous people."