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Conflict >  Experiences of war and terrorism
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'We are grieving for the dreams of our children'

Conflict: Heidi Weber has three sons on active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. To help cope with the loss, she formed a support group for families of people serving in the US military

Article photoPeru: 'Almost all my family were killed'

Conflict: Bertha Fernandez, a survivor of Peru’s biggest massacre in Putis, describes the day 147 villagers and peasants were killed by soldiers and buried in a mass grave there in 1984

Article photo'Our convoy team got hit three times'

Conflict: Last week we published Chris Weber's update on life as a US Army soldier in Iraq. Here, Chris's brother Tom Weber describes life in the Navy Seabees in Iraq and Afghanistan

'The longer you stay, the more people you know get killed'

Iraq: In 2007, we began publishing the experiences of three brothers from the US who were all in active service. Here, US Army soldier Chris Weber offers an update

Sri Lanka: 'We had to throw the bodies into the sea'

Conflict: As the civil war in Sri Lanka ends, Indra Menon describes how last month, he fled from Sri Lanka to escape the conflict

Congo: 'Rape was not policy'

Ngendaha Yo Leonce, a former soldier with the Congolese FDLR, describes his life as a soldier fighting against the Rwandans

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