RED GROUND: The Forgotten Conflict
Massacres in Sierra Leone
A Military Thriller based on True Events
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Sierra LeoneFebruary 1995
For that error, there would be a price to pay.
I would become a man haunted by my mistakes. I should have died … I didn’t.
We had been surrounded. Neither my men nor I had heard them approach. The hut door flew open with a savage bang followed by a stream of shells from AK-47s slicing and cutting through the flimsy mud walls. The small space filled with the raw smell of cordite and an overwhelming noise of gunfire, and African voices shouting, screaming and yelling.
This was it. It was all over for us.
But I was wrong.
It had only just begun.
From the first day we arrived, I had been the over eager white man with the superior technology, regarding the Sierra Leone conflict as a Marx Brothers comedy. How fucking wrong I was!