Kokrobite beach outside Big Millys

Big Millys

KOKROBITE

This place is just a little away from where I am based and the volunteers spend most of the weekends there. We stay at this place call Big Millys which is our little piece of paradise, sand, surf, mostly nice locals, interesting tourists, good food!!!! and convienant. It plays live music on the weekends.

This morning while sleeping in the dorms I was awoken by yelling... it was about 4 am. I at the time thought in not so nice words "please be quiet I'm trying to sleep". Though on getting on this morning I learnt that something big had gone down and felt bad for what I was thinking.

Here is the story as I know it... some of the facts depending who is telling the story are different. In the weekend in a village not far from Kokrobite two solders were killed and one had his hand cut off. This was a result of an early morning raid on a house. The reasons for the solders being there are different, one is about a relsationship gone wrong and the man wanting money (they were not in uniform), the other was that is was solders on offical business but the people of the house thought that it was robbers pretenting to be with the millitary (this had happened in the past). So on Monday a few of my mates were on the beach and saw people running frantically along the beach and saw all the shop quickly shut. This is when they learnt the story about the solders. Apparently the army had come in looking for the people who were responsible for the harming and killing of soldiers. This morning the police came with trucks and took apparently anyone they could find, men women and children to the police station. In the hope that they will find the people responsible or someone will confess. This will sadly be done no doubt by deprieving the people of food and water and also by physically abusing the people. It was very quiet around the place today with no one too sure what is going to happen next.