Trauma is an interesting thing, in that when someo...

2009-06-12T08:43:10.500-07:00

Trauma is an interesting thing, in that when someone who has gone through comes to grips with it and talks about it, there is a real change that comes about.

One of the major problems with this, however, is that governments often come to power with a promise to change the dynamics of the past.. the "Old Way" as they might say. When they do this, a sort of officially sanctioned denial of blame or a glossed over retelling of what really happened takes place and the truth simmers in anger.

Look at Kenya after the election. Once the violence subsided, the government acted as if things were moving forward and peace and reconciliation was all that was needed, while a need for justice and a residual ethnic tension is still bubbling below the surface of the Kenyan conscience.

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Trauma is an interesting thing, in that when someo...