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word gets out who is a murderer and who isn’t. But there are no guarantees.

Here’s what struck me most about selco’s story:

1. that the warlords and their gangs do not go away when the war ends. Once they seize power, they keep it. indefinitely.

2. that selco does not want to draw attention to himself even today...that he does not want to discus ideology or politics. I consider this proof that the warlords are still in power. It reminds me of trying to get an irishman to talk about the IRA. They just won’t do it.

3. that selco claimed he was told to “stop talking about it”. I think the instinct for clans and tribes is still strong with him. I think it is his family that is telling him to stop it, not the warlords. In that SHTF he went through, your clan is your life. You die without your clan. Your clan knows all about you and you know all about every one of its members. I think he will go to his grave still maintaining that close clannish life he developed in the war and that is the reason he is at times hesitant to talk about certain aspects. They know he is writing about this because he tells them. That is the nature of his family clan.

4. My hunch is that selco is a non religious muslim as is his family. I believe he has a vague feeling about god and does not care much about theology or the preachings of any one man. He indicated he had a catholic wife who was not the same faith as himself. He indicated that young men with fierce beliefs in any certain ideology(politics or religion) are the ones that joined the gangs and seek out enemies to prey on. this makes very much sense to me. It also makes sense to me why selco would never join one of the gangs since he is not a fierce believer in any dogma or politics of any kind. He may even be jewish. I have known several jews with this kind of outlook on the world and life.