Words are weapons. Stories are dangerous, for they define who we are, they define our history; they can be weaponised. Stories and history are tools and weapons of war. Stories can be used as part of genocide, because if you say a people are extinct other people might believe it. Stories can be part of genocide because you can use stories to erase a culture.

We are the stories we tell each other and the stories we tell ourselves. History is nothing but a story; a nation and its culture are defined by that story and the story is not always built on the truth.