The Koenigsberg Factor

    Alex saw his duty as a highly noble task and looked forward to his first patrol in the jungle protecting Belgian families.
   They arrived to the village in two jeeps and instantly knew that something wasn't right. Natives scattered.
   The Mau-Mau came here first and the scene they left behind was horrifying. They emasculated all white males and stuffed their mouths with cut off genitals before killing them. They raped all white women and girls and then massacred them with machetres and spears.
   After the initial shock, the group scattered searching for answers.
   It is impossible to describe the degree of rage every mamber of the group felt. They found two local Mau-Mau collaborators and dismembered both in the manner similar to Mau-Mau's, doing to them what the Mau-Mau did to the priest and the other white males. But... they did not kill them, they left them to die slowly, in agony.
   Then something totally unexpected happened. The action developed spontaneously, without command, from all sides of the village. Shots crackled, screams rose up, then died. They massacred all natives including women and children, then slaughtered all livestock: pigs and chickens, plus dogs. They did not burn down the village -- the scene was more terrifying that way: empty and quiet with nothing alive in it.