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The Little Girl
 
Well, my dad was killed by the army in 1984. And when they killed my dad, they hacked him with the machetes and left him tied up when he was already dead. And three days afterwards we went to pick him up, but he was already decaying, when we went to pick him up.  
 
     They hacked him with the machetes when we had come down from the mountains. They hacked him and afterwards they left him tied up, sitting with all his, all his intestines out over his legs. They left him leaning against a beam, and with their machetes they hacked him in front of me. With the machete they first chopped off his hand, here, and then they hacked him in his head, one in his forehead and then here, look. And then in his stomach and here.  
 
     They left him, and four days afterwards we went to pick him up. Then I went to my mother's place and stayed with her for a year after my dad's death. I only stayed with my mother a year, then they took her.  
 
     My mother too was taken by the army. And then my aunt, who was pregnant. They took my aunt and with a machete they opened her stomach. And the baby came out and they had it in their hands and played with it, and finally they put sticks up between my aunt's legs, and then they put sticks up her bottom, between her legs, here, and they took the baby and placed it on her chest, they wanted it to suckle her, but the baby was kicking and she was dead.  
 
     And afterwards they began to split her with a piece of... with a machete. They did so many things, and there was my aunt, and they lifted my aunt up, and then they completely slashed her with a knife. That's why I feel so bitter about what the army did. That's why I hate the army.  
 
 
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