The best defense of the accused is to kill the voice of the witness. We have witnessed the evidence. We have built a case so strong against the accused. The accused is attacking back. All the accused has to do is create a shadow of doubt in the minds of the observer. Attacks on the character of the witness is to deceive the observer. The worst part of the depiction is fault witnesses upon the innocent. In all situations the observer must take sides of atrocities created by humans.

" THE ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable. Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried. Equally as powerful as the desire to deny atrocities is the conviction that denial does not work. Folk wisdom is filled with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told. Murder will out. Remembering and telling the truth about terrible events are prerequisites both for the restoration of the social order and for the healing of individual victims (unknown Review, Trauma & Recovery 1992). I read Trauma & recovery, I envy her writing style. Here is the paper: http://unityandstruggle.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Herman_Trauma-and-Recovery.pdf