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- It was his land-mines that killed your...
- Sh!
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We don't name the dead.
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Everyone who loses somebody
wants revenge,
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on God if they can't find anyone else.
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But in Africa,
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in Matobo, the Ku believe that
the only way to end grief is to save a life.
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If someone is murdered,
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a year of mourning ends with a ritual
that we call the Drowning Man Trial.
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There's an all-night party beside a river.
At dawn, the killer is put in a boat.
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He's taken out on the water and he's
dropped. He's bound so that he can't swim.
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The family of the dead then has to choose.
They can let him drown,
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or they can save him.
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The Ku believe that if the family
lets the killer drown,
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they'll have justice
but spend the rest of their lives in mourning.
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But if they save him,
if they admit that life isn't always just...
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...that very act can take away their sorrow.
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Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.
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Why do you look away?
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There are things I don't like to talk about
and you call it lying.
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But not when you do it.
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I'm not the one under investigation.