They Were us embodies a painful cry for help as well as an unrelenting demand from mainly mothers for social justice against a most sinister and deadly enemy.
The book is full of first-hand accounts of wanton killings, sometimes defined as murders, invariably seen as executions (or EJE, short for extra-judicial executions), and always understood as flagrant violations of the social, criminal, and civil codes of police conduct, all of which are aimed at protecting the public from criminal behaviour.
