Burundi – UNHCR Tracks

By Hannah McNeish

Even before she speaks, the violence that has torn through Burundi is legible on Nicole’s skin. The stab mark to her belly; the inch-long gash to her neck and the raisin-shaped scar on her scalp from other knife blows. Indelible rope burns mark her arms and legs, and some of her teeth are gone, punched out.