"The chlops clubbed my mother, my sister and others, and they fell into the grave. All i wished for at that moment was to tell my mother how much I loved her.I wished we had been able to say goodbye."
"I sank down in despair, lying on top of the horribly mutilated bodies, waiting to be executed too." "After many years of suppression and living with anger and darkness. The desire for revenge meant that I was living with an unreal dream that one day I would be able to fulfill my promise of vengeance."
"I felt I had created an image of a prison in my head, and into that prison I put the images of my family's killers." In the 15 years since I had lost my family, every day I imagined butchering, axing, chopping and beating my family's killers in that prison."
Confronting a killer
"Do you remember how many people you killed that day?" "No, i don't remember." "There were 33 people, but only 32 died. I am the sole survivor." I asked Mao his feelings, but he showed no emotion, no regret and no remorse over what he had done. "How do you feel now that I have said I have forgiven you?" I asked. "Thank you," was all Mao said.
"I found it very difficult to get the words out as I stood before the man who had killed my father. My throat choked with unspoken words and my heart ached with pain."
Extracts adapted from Reader's Digest June 2008
- Appreciate what you have, appreciate your love ones before it's too late.
- Stop taking revenge. Revenge creates hatred, wrath and cruelness in you.You are no difference with a killer.
- If you can't forget the one who hurts you, FORGIVE.
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