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ourselves mutilated every day, without any resistance?
MOKSA
We must resist without violence. We must resist.
(Barbara Burumba, ten year old girl, runs in)
BARBARA
Father! They're burning our house!
(Moses Burumba curses; runs out)
MOKSA
How long can we bear this?
(All the men exit, except Servus Neriana)
NERIANA
Who is burning your house? What facts do you have?
BARBARA
It's your fault! I hate you! Let me go!
CHUANA MOKSA
You will stay with us until your father comes back.
(Neriana exits)
INDIO
I want to go with father!
CHUANA
You stay here, Indio.
(Indio and Barbara sit at table)
INDIO
Your father wants to fight the Europeans, but he's not as strong as they.
