The Randomness of Life Chapter 56~ for A Little Drabble Do Ya, Wednesday drabble challenge 8/28

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This 1/2 drabble was the inspiration for "The Congo Affair" http://section7mfu.livejournal.com/256528.html


                 

Prompted by: English In 1819~Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know,

They were running for their lives in the Belgian Congo, as the ruling forces had changed places, and UNCLE was no longer welcome.  The former prime minister had been deposed and sent to Katanga.

Napoleon and Illya followed, on board a lorry, in hopes of sneaking past the checkpoints.

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An army, which liberticide and prey

The soldiers and the fighting were brutal, bodies were scattered everywhere, women and childrens as well, murdered because they were of the wrong tribe.

And nothing could be done...

Still the agents managed to survive, trekking through the jungle,  once free of Kantanga, crossing the border to Zambia.

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A Senate, Time's worst statute unrepealed,--

A pickup was arranged via land line, with a chopper arriving in hours.

Revolutions are usually bloody,” Illya said, obviously shaken, “but not like this.”

“Hopefully they won’t happen anymore someday tovarisch, and things will be resolved peacefully.

“You are ever the optimist Napoleon,” Illya shook his head, still angered.