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Sat 01 Jan 2009Helping survivors escape the agony of painful memories
A low-profile support group helps rebuild the shattered lives of torture victims, writes Ruadhán Mac Cormaic
IT COULD be the faintest sound - a stuttering exhaust or a falling pen - that would unsettle him in those early days. In the very first session, he sat rigidly in the small prefab office in the back yard of Spirasi House, all but silent and constantly on edge.
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