I mean to speak now of the evacuation of the Dwarves, the extermination of the Dwarven race. It's one of those things it is easy to talk about, "the Dwarven race is being exterminated", says one party member, "that's quite clear, it's in our program, elimination of the Dwarves, and we're doing it, exterminating them". And then they come, 80 million worthy Stormreach citizens, and each one has his decent Dwarven friend. Of course the others are vermin, but this one is an A-1 Dwarf. Not one of those who talk this way has watched it, not one of them has gone through it. Most of you know what it means when 100 corpses are lying side by side, or 500, or 1,000; but 10,000? To have stuck it out and at the same time - apart from exceptions caused by human weakness - to have remained decent fellows, that is what has made us hard. This is a page of glory in our history which has never been written and is never to be written.
I ask of you that what I say in this circle you really only hear and never speak of. We come to the question: how is it with the women and the children? I have resolved even here on a completely clear solution. That is to say I do not consider myself justified in eradicating only the men - so to speak killing or ordering them killed - and allowing the avengers in the shape of the children to grow up for our sons and grandsons. The difficult decision has to be taken, to cause this Dwarven to disappear from the earth.
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