Crime Quote by Eskinder Nega

“All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.” quote by Eskinder Nega — Download Open image

“All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.”

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Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.

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I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.

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I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said of my incarcerators though…

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