A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.

~ Noam Chomsky, "We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân". Documentary, January 10, 2011.

To appreciate what we were given and to build on the fragile peace we have today, we must first understand what we had in the past.