Chapter 1820: Colonel's conditions

In the next few days, the colonel did not come to bother them. Those black militants met the mercenaries of o2 and walked around. And Karl didn't break his promise, he was helping Lin Rui and others find mercenaries through various channels. Fortunately, in such a place, some black market mercenaries can always be found. But not much has met the requirements of Lin Rui and others.
The first is to be proficient in weapons, have experienced battles, can basically communicate in English, and don't want patients and disabled people. Although this requirement is not excessive, only a few people can meet it. However, because the prices they offer are not low, they attract many people.
There are many people nearby, desperadoes who can't mix in several countries at the same time. Since there is an opportunity to make money, they will not give up. After a few days, Lin Rui and the others could be regarded as recruiting a group of people, but they were far from the number they wanted.
Lin Rui and the others were sitting in the tavern, Snake Eye walked in from the outside, he put his cowboy hat on the table and sat opposite Lin Rui.
Lin Rui looked up at him and said, "How is it, how is the recruitment?"
"Not very good. That Karl Fei spent a long time, and he recruited more than two hundred people, and they were all not good stuff." Snake Eye replied.
"What we want are ordinary mercenaries, not elite squads. It doesn't matter if the quality is almost the same, as long as the basic conditions are met." Lin Rui shook his head and hit.
Snake Eye said helplessly, "But what we need is at least five hundred, and at least this number can meet our current needs. If this continues, we will have to wait at least two weeks to complete this mission. I just want to leave this ghost early. local."
"Maybe I can help you." A black man walked in from the outside.
Lin Rui turned his head and looked at the man, frowning slightly, "You? Colonel, I remember you said not to interfere with our affairs here."
"Of course, but I also want you to leave my territory soon." The colonel looked at them, and the bodyguards behind him were full of guard. The colonel seemed rather calm. He was the local snake here. Although he was a little afraid of the mercenaries like Lin Rui, he also understood that these mercenaries would not deliberately make trouble for him.
"Don't look at me like that. I just made a suggestion out of kindness." The colonel shrugged.
"Let's listen." Lin Rui looked at him.
"I heard that you are looking for black market mercenaries, but mercenaries are hard to find these days. I have a way, I don't know if you dare to do it." The colonel looked at Lin Rui. "I know that there is a training camp about seventy kilometers away, and there may be the manpower you need."
"Training camp? What training camp?" Lin Rui frowned.
"You should know that I was originally from the Uganda Resistance Army, so I know some of their situation. A few years ago, the Uganda Resistance Army was hit hard, and the number was once reduced to two or three hundred. But that is only official data, some of them The matter is not reflected in official data." The colonel beckoned. One of his men came up and poured him a glass of wine.
"What on earth are you trying to say? What's in that training camp?" Snake Eye looked at the colonel.
"It was a training camp for child soldiers. The Uganda Resistance Army hid a total of four to five hundred child soldiers there. They played a very important role in the confrontation with government forces. The leader is me. The enemy." The colonel was silent for a while, "If you kill him, or you can take over this child army."
"Child soldier!" Snake Eye said in surprise.
No one really knows how many child soldiers there are in the world, but according to a data, as of 2008, the total number of child soldiers in the world exceeded 300,000, accounting for almost a quarter of the total number of soldiers on warring parties worldwide. To this day, more than 70 military organizations in 19 countries around the world have recruited and used child soldiers to fight, which is still documented.
The phenomenon of child soldiers in Africa is even more serious. Insurgent organizations in Uganda often use kidnapping and other means to arrest children, and force these ten-year-old children to join the fight. This is one of the reasons why the Uganda Resistance Army is notorious.
From the perspective of psychology, thirteen or fourteen-year-old teenagers generally have "youth phobia". They are rebellious and impulsive at this age, and will be more unscrupulous and reckless than adults on the battlefield. In addition, thirteen-four-year-old teenagers are more likely to accept the "subculture" of war.
Subculture refers to a non-mainstream, partial cultural phenomenon, which belongs to the unique concepts and lifestyles of a certain region or a certain collective. For thirteen or fourteen-year-old teenagers, the mainstream culture should be studying and doing good, and the armed rebel groups have created a "subculture" atmosphere for them, allowing child soldiers to fight well and kill people in war.
Armed organizations will slogans such as "national liberation" for the murder of child soldiers. With these moral support, child soldiers will be more brave and cruel on the battlefield. Because they are underage and lack moral guilt, these child soldiers are often more cruel than adults.
"You want us to hire children to fight? Who the do you think of us?!" Snake's eyes snapped.
"Colon, we don't want a group of children who can kill." Lin Rui said with a deep face, "We want mercenaries. Maybe we are not good people, but at least we want to recruit adults with autonomous capabilities."
"Province you for such self-righteous arguments. We all know what mercenaries are." The colonel said slowly. "You don't even know what's going on with child soldiers. But I know that I was a child soldier myself.
In the 1970s, when I was only ten years old, I joined the army. First I worked as a porter for a week, transporting ammunition; then I was trained to fight, learning how to shoot with machetes, mines and machine guns, and launch rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
A week later, they ordered me to rob and kill. They said: ‘now we have given you the power to kill, you have to do this, if you don’t, we will kill you. ’A few hours later, we came to a small village to grab food and supplies. The village is mostly women and children, and they ordered me to kill these people.
I just paused, and they hacked me with a machete. "The colonel rolled up his sleeves. The scars on his arm were full.
"So I closed my eyes and started killing. It was a painful experience. In the following years, I was forced to commit many atrocities and killed many civilians. Only by killing them can I live and have something to eat.
I have no time to think about the lives of innocent civilians. It wasn't until 2005 that they fell into an ambush by the Ugandan government army, and most of them were captured by the government army. "The colonel said calmly.
"This has nothing to do with us." Lin Rui shook his head.
"My men are all well-trained players. If you help me win the training camp, I will give my men to you. They should also be happy to go out and become mercenaries to earn some money, so that they can integrate into a normal life in the future. . But in exchange, you have to release the child soldiers.
The colonel looked at him and said,
and hand over the person in charge of the training camp to me. This is my condition.