I particularly liked the part where the "Army ordered" them to get into a lager. That's Afrikaans for "circle the wagons".
Made me think of "Zulu Dawn", "Return of Zulu Dawn", and "Zulu Dawn All Over Again" ~ maybe some other stuff ~ "Heart of Darkness" leaps to mind.
Someday we might know the truth of the matter. In the meantime all we have here are a bunch of Brits telling their countrymen how excited they get when surrounded by intimidating looking young black men ~ sure as the devil this country will be inundated by hundreds of thousands of these guys come next rainy season!
Why do you continue to insinuate these people are lying?
They have no reason to lie; unless, of course, you think saying anything back about blacks is racist.
Yeah, I'll bet they made it all up, right? Those lousy honkies.
You are right about the Brits, in my job I meet them all the time and they are still into thinking of America as the "Wild West" with the chance of facing "real" danger an added adventure, such as a remote desert road in August. When I tell them that there skeletons will not be found until the next spring, they usually back off from their proposed expedition.
I went back and re-read and do not see where you came up with that cockeyed conclusion. But maybe you meant terrified instead of excited.
What on earth makes you think these people are lying? I've heard similar accounts from other groups of people and I think it's malicious on your part to insinuate that these traumatized people are lying.
LOL! Maybe we can get them to build us some roads, schools and hospitals while they're over here...
That seems unkind, as well as cynical and anglophobic. BTW, if there is any one group of people who apparently feel that danger is a necessary part of any vacation, it's young Americans, not Brits.