Broadcast live to the web from a phone call

Yesterday after many long hours interviewing 21 people, one after another, all of whom recounted grim experiences of being attacked, nearly killed, watching loved ones being killed, and seeing their homes and everything they owned be destroyed by fire, my tireless translator quietly said, “You heard these people and their fear. How can anyone not understand why we won't go home? Of course we want to go home. But we can't.”