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Heavy reliance on the tool of confession is lazy. It aborts justice. As a result, whoever murdered eight people that March day in Bwindi—whether the three defendants or others—was not held to account.

David K. Shipler

Heavy reliance on the tool of confession is lazy. It aborts justice. As a result, whoever murdered eight people that March day in Bwindi—whether the three defendants or others—was not held to account.

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About David K. Shipler

David K. Shipler (born December 3, 1942) is an American author and journalist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1987 for Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land. Among his other publications the book entitled, The Working Poor: Invisible in America, also has garnered many awards. Formerly, he was a foreign correspondent of The New York Times and served as one of their bureau chiefs. He taught at many colleges and universities. Since 2010, he has published the electronic journal, The Shipler Report. He began co-hosting the podcast, Two Reporters in 2021. A collection of his poems was published in 2023.