A little over 20 years ago a brutal little war came to an end in Africa. Mr Ian Smith’s Rhodesia, having run out of money, men and external support, was forced to accept the inevitable and hold universal franchise elections. Mr Robert Mugabe came to power.
The war on the Rhodesian side was fought, in part, by white conscripts and volunteers. Many of the conscripts were ordinary young men who were caught up in a harrowing situation which they did not like. Some of these were brutalised by the stupidities of the Rhodesian army and its unreformed training. Others left the country as soon as they could in order to escape increasingly frequent, and dangerous, call-ups.
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