I agree. He said he killed 20K people and I don’t think he meant in battles plus slaughters that he did that.
Plus, he admits to taking drugs along with his men. There are tales of Vietnam vets who have totally exaggerated or invented atrocities and while I have no doubt there was cruelty and great evil and atrocity, I’m having a little trouble trusting the alleged scale of the crimes ‘admitted to’ by Blahyi.
Trust me. I’ve fought in Africa. He’s probably not exaggerating. He may be low balling it. They have no respect for life.
I agree, once a “manipulator” the behavior continues, just on the other side. If you are truly grieving, you don’t want to talk about it for quite a while.