“I want to replace their knives and guns with flowers,” she said. “I want to bring their humanity back even if my son’s gone...I have been thinking a lot, and I can’t bring my son back, but I do want to unmask the killers. I want to take the mask that makes their faces look like murderers and lift it up and say: ‘No, look, that’s not really you, you have this other face underneath.’
What do I want to slap their faces for? It’s what they’ve had their whole lives and that’s why they slap back, and they kill. Maybe if I hug or kiss, it will wake them up? How else do you make a noise that the humans inside the murderers will hear, and finally come out?”
Source: http://camdennewjournal.com/article/mother-knife-victim-milad-golmakani-says-she-wants-hug-and-kiss-my-sons-killers-say-s?sp=19&sq=hampstead%2520school%2520of%2520art
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