Whatever was happening at the base, people from the local villages say they have known about the training grounds for a while now, and report that the soldiers/security guards roamed around the nearby villages in groups, harassing people and ‘behaving in an almost arrogant manner’.
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South African mercenaries hired by the Mozambican government have been accused of firing machine guns from helicopters and dropping hand grenades indiscriminately into crowds of people.