Gunship Ace by Al Venter

Author:Al Venter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bisac Code 1: HIS037030
ISBN: eBook ISBN: 9781612000824
Publisher: Casemate
Published: 2012-01-18T16:00:00+00:00

Towards the end of March the situation in the country became critical. The rebels had taken Kisangani and the Serb mercenary group, which was supposed to be holding the city, retreated to Gbadolite in the north. There were also political demonstrations in Kinshasa which turned violent.

Suddenly, it wasn’t even safe to walk in the streets around the hotel, so accepting good advice, Nellis stopped heading out for his early morning jogs.

The demonstrations could be quite violent and were dealt with severely by the police, with the army also getting involved from time to time. Just about every day guns could be heard being fired, especially if there were demonstrators involved. The authorities were ruthless. They would fire live rounds and people who stood their ground and shouted abuse were shot dead. Nellis remembers:

Sometimes these demonstrations would take place within sight of the Intercontinental and Roelf and I would take up grandstand positions on our balcony and watch running battles and, more often than not, see some of the demonstrators being felled. The rounds fired by the cops would sometimes pass quite close to where we were perched and we’d be reminded of the old ‘tikking’ sound as bullets flashed past. It was certainly a diversion from watching CNN.

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