| I reached the village with my convoy. The gang were wearing uniforms with helmets. All of them were young, some even adolescents, armed to the teeth: machine guns, grenades and large scimitars in their hands, most of them still bloodstained. A beautiful young girl, with criminal eyes, showed me her knife still dripping with blood; she displayed it like a trophy.... This was obviously the 'cleaning up' team, which was obviously performing its task very conscientiously.... Virtually the entire population of the village had been deliberately massacred in cold blood, for as I observed for myself, this gang was admirably disciplined and only acted under their leaders' orders. |
Ismail Zayid, M.D., Halifax