He qualifies exhumations as a humanitarian act that allows families to close what he calls the circle of pain and mourning in which they have been caught for a quarter of a century, and says it was unthinkable as recently as a few years ago that investigations into war crimes would have been allowed in this country.

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Yet somehow it was transformed into, what it's turned into, a beautiful thing, although not without pain. -Yes.

但您的一生却，得以转化成另外一种美，尽管伴随着苦痛，-是的。

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What we are creating is a community of pleasure and pain.

我们在创建的,是一个苦乐并存的社群。

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