Literature is a large facet of what is available as reaction decades after mass state atrocities occur. Authors of all kinds, academics, journalists, and fiction writers, all do the work of exposing truth through word. To do so, during a time of state-imposed silence is particularly shocking. Text as a medium has the power to legitimate, and validate experience on broad scales. In the world of academia, they are taken up as resources to testimony, they are citable evidence, they are mobile, they are malleable. Story-telling in whichever form it takes is a powerful method to engage in empathy and publication provides a platform for legitimization.