Bram Posthumus
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/ 23 December 2005

Violence is never the answer

Close your eyes and think about war veterans, demobilised soldiers or ex-combatants. Chances are the images will be those of violent or menacing men. Soldiers coming from the world’s battlefields and trying to adapt to civilian life tend to get bad press and not much else. Mozambican ex-combatants who set up Propaz in 1997, insist that there is more to their story than this.