Victims of a Congolese Attack
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Victims of a Congolese Attack
Our job was to take and supply communications. we were
armed to protect ourselves. The support, infantry support
were Malians in Bukavu and they were the people we had
to depend on for, if anything happened. There were a few,
few things that happened close by. I happened to have
been at, to visit somebody in the hospital in Bukavu and a
truck come riding in and people running beside it and there
were two, there was a man and a woman which were Belgiques.
They had a plantation, the Congolese raided it and they,
they were all cut up from machetes and that and they’re,
they’re checking their legs and that and the thing was they
tried to take them, bring them in the hospital and they
didn’t have stretchers. And I happened to have been there
and I went in, there was another couple of fellows with me.
I said, “get a couple blankets”, and we got blankets and I showed
them how to take and get a blanket and just pull, stretch so
bring them in. The agony that they were in, those two,
they were all cut up with machetes and that. And again,
the hospital there they didn't have all that much for anything.
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