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FIVE MILES OUTSIDE GOROM-GOROM,

BURKINA FASO, WEST AFRICA

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The corpses burnt. Piled up high. Women on top of men and men on top of women and the bodies of the children blistered and charred as the greed of the fire reached them, devouring the flesh as they lay at the highest point, like a peak on a mountaintop, forming a summit built of the dead.

And the fire spat out its smells and sent up black smoke which twisted and clouded, warping the sky of its light.

The young soldier standing nearby yawned, then smiled as he finally managed to work out it was a picture of Mickey Mouse on the boy’s T-shirt. With his curiosity now satisfied, he threw the lifeless body into the burning flames. This was the last village. At least for now. The area had been cleared. All the houses, buildings and churches were nothing but ash, and now all that was needed was to wait for more instructions.