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Nine hours and countless bullets after gunmen began bombarding Stanley’s police station in Port-au-Prince, the twentysomething officer started fearing he would not make it out alive. “If you don’t hear from me, it’s because I’m dead,” he wrote on a family WhatsApp group by way of goodbye. The officer’s sister shivered as she read her sibling’s parting text and – when he didn’t answer her messages – rang one of his closest friends desperate for news. “I’m going out of my mind,” she sobbed. Contrary to his prediction, Stanley* did survive the recent assault on his fortress-like base but was...