About how they invaded the villages.
How the soldiers arrived in canoes.
How the villagers heard them arriving and put together parcels of food and grain in hopes that they would go to the other villages and leave them in peace.
How the soldiers returned.
How they pillaged the land, looted the huts, destroyed the crops, and killed all the cattle and other animals.
How they forced male villagers to rape or kill their mothers and sisters.
How babies were taken from their mothers and thrown into the grasses.
How some villagers took what was left of their belongings and fled into the forest.
How in the forest they survived on roots and insects.
How some mothers abandoned their children because their crying gave away where they were hiding.
How some villagers tried to flee into neighboring British or French territory and drowned in the surrounding rivers.
How all the villages were burned.
How village chiefs were killed and thrown into the water.
How the village grounds were littered with corpses.
How the air was heavy with the smell of rotting flesh
