Before we got to town, word had got out that we were coming. People had lined up in this huge line to sit down with us and tell their story, it was unbelievable. Everyone has been effected by the war, personally, and everyone has a story to tell. There were so many, the line just kept going but we kept shooting, all day, even after we ran out of memory for the cameras, we just decided to keep going because you could tell how badly people wanted to be able to tell their story and we wanted them all to be heard.
There were so many heartbreaking moments, what the people have been though here, the things they've been made to do, but what also comes through is the resilience of the human heart, the ability to survive, and more than that,
the capacity for forgiveness that, hearing the stories, often challenges understanding. What seems most poignant is that here, in the face of the very worst that humans are capable of has also come the very best, and these people that could teach the world not just about compassion, but about the true strength of the human heart. — NG