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By 1978, Rhodesians of all races were being squeezed between a rock and a hard place, and the distance between the two was inexorably narrowing.

IMAGINE LIFE IN A NOT-UNPLEASANT RUT......

THEN

IMAGINE EVERYTHING YOU KNOW CHANGING

IMAGINE BEING FORCED TO KILL YOUR OWN FATHER

IMAGINE YOUR LOVER BEING ABDUCTED BY ARMED MEN

IMAGINE HAVING THE WORK OF A LIFETIME VIOLENTLY STOLEN

IMAGINE BUSLOADS OF PEOPLE BEING DRIVEN OVER TANK MINES

IMAGINE A PEACEFUL STABLE COUNTRY SUDDENLY STALKED BY MENACE

IMAGINE WHOLE VILLAGES BEING DRIVEN INTO DWELLINGS WHICH ARE SET ALIGHT

IMAGINE HOW A KIND OF MACABRE EXCITEMENT GRIPS THE WHOLE LAND

IMAGINE HAVING NO CHOICE BUT TO TO FIGHT ON OR FLEE

IMAGINE REALISING IT HAS ALL BEEN FOR NOTHING

AND THAT EVEN MOST WINNERS ARE LOSERS

AND THAT THE RUT IS NOW DEEPER

AND REALLY VERY UNPLEASANT

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