"Some police were reactive some were not. Some of them told us to stay in our houses, some of them asked us why we didn’t leave and how we protect ourselves. I asked them, “Aren’t you the police and soldier of this country?” They said, “Yes.” "Aren’t you protecting us? First God, and then you."

[TW: Sexual Violence]"People had traumas that were difficult to overcome. There were human rights violations as serious as evidence of rape. So they closed down other places so that violations there couldn’t be seen.”

"No electricity, no water. We were running out of bread. We were eating carefully. We stopped having breakfast so we have bread for the evening. My brother was trying to bring bread from outside but it wasn’t possible. It wasn’t possible for them to enter. Never."

"The self-government war became a pretext for a project that was already ready. The expropriation decisions were made in such a hurry that they [seized] spaces that had been already public. This happened right after the conflicts."