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The Guerrilla
I
went into the community and at that time they were torturing a man. When
I saw him he said: "Close your eyes and shut your mouth!" He was screaming
and said: "Don't kill me, I have a family, I'm a worker!"
It was very very sad, very embarrassing,
very painful - he was blood-stained, terribly bruised. I never like to
make declarations because they watch you in the village, and you can't
do anything about it.
If someone took courage and told what we
went through, you can't imagine it... boys and girls completely smashed
... it looked like they had grabbed them by their feet and then banged
them against the beams in the house - burnt them - some women were burnt,
raped, and it's unbelievable that there are men that are so murderous.
They are not our brothers.
In an ambush set up by the army, my cousins,
their kids ... and innocent people died, people who never imagined they
would be killed, because they just came in from the village to the community,
and the army ambushed them and wiped them out. They rounded them up and
locked them up in a house, and they set fire to the house, they locked
them up.
My cousin was on his way with his sprayer
to spray his cornfield. They captured them and locked them up in a house
and set fire to the house, and all of them were burnt alive. Only one
of my female cousins and another girl succeeded in escaping because they
were very beautiful. The soldiers raped them and everything and then left
them - they allowed them to go.
Then at 6 o'clock in the morning they came
down to a house of one of my uncles. And there my uncle gave them some
clothes - their own clothes were completely torn to pieces - and they
told what they had done to them and about all the people that had died.
Well, there were 172 persons to whom the
army had said: "At 4 o'clock in the afternoon all of these have to be
buried," they said. "No, there is not enough room for all of you here..."
They buried them in that ditch which they
made - 172 persons. A couple of years ago they dug them out, but I repeat,
those who lay on top, they burnt, and those who lay below were only cooked,
but they died. But, you know, it's incredible what the army has done.
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