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"We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide."

Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian Public Servant

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"We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide."

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"We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide."

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