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Publication Instance Details #2165

Publication Overview

Translation	Is Multilingual	Explicit Irish Context?	Ekphrasis	Has Paratext?	Reference to News, Media or Technology
No	No	Yes	No	No	No

Details

Human Rights Issues	War Genocide HR Activism/Humanitarian Work Gender-based violence
Irish Context	HR-related International Involvement (Ireland)
Languages	English
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	The speaker of the poem details the brutal slaughter of an entire village of people, which he describes as a 'hidden cleansing' - which included the rape of all the women and girls of the area. In the poem, the speaker is part of the peacekeeping forces working to remove the bodies from the mass grave and relocate them somewhere where their remains can be identified in future. The speaker describes the humanity of the dead villagers, and the twisted sense of wartime 'justice' that led to this terrible event.