About half an hour before the massacre began, General Security forces entered the village and told us they had come to protect us. They asked the men to return from the forests. We trusted them—but only fifteen minutes after our young men came back, those same forces returned and killed them. They said they came to bring security, but they brought slaughter

When the gunfire died down, I returned to where my family had been slaughtered. I found them on the ground lying side by side, and I couldn't do anything. I felt helpless. And that helplessness and survivor's guilt will accompany me till the day I die.