by admin | January 3, 2026 12:12 pm
The island’s long struggle with ethnic conflict, political polarisation, and social inequality has shown repeatedly that words can do what weapons do: divide, destroy, and dehumanise. Yet it has also shown that words can stitch together broken trust, speak dignity back into lives erased by violence, and invite communities into a deeper humanity.
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