<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397549" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Anthem to the 47th Cuban / Faplan Brigade</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whom but your mothers back in Havana<br>and some in Luanda<br>mourn your lost or knows<br>that you were slaughtered in battle<br>as if human life<br>holds nothing sacred, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">were wiped out by one <br>of only two battalions<br>at the junction of the Lomba<br>and Cuzizi Rivers, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">that you heard Ratel armoured cars<br>driving in at speed, <br>the roar of Olifant tanks<br>and the thunder of their guns <br>or the whining stutter of machineguns<br>nor did you probably say any prayers<br>before deadly shells fell from the sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What remorse does your supreme leader feel<br>when your mothers, wives and children<br>light up candles<br>(who never really had a chance <br>for a proper goodbye) <br>and knows by now <br>that you will never come home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: “The results of the campaign up to April 1988 were 4,785 killed on the Cuban/Faplan side, with 94 tanks and hundreds of combat vehicles destroyed, against 31 South Africans killed in action,3 tanks destroyed (SADF tanks entered the war after the Lomba River campaign) and 11 SADF armoured cars and troop carriers lost. A total of 9 Migs were destroyed and only 1 SAAF Mirage shot down.” Jannie Geldenhuys.1994: At the front. P240. Johanthan Ball Publishers.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397549" data-title="Anthem to the 47th Cuban / Faplan Brigade de Gert Strydom" data-description="Whom but your mothers back in Havana and some in Luanda mourn your lost or knows that you were slaughtered in battle as if human life holds nothing sacred, were wiped out by one of only two battalions at the junction of the Lomba and Cuzizi Riv..."></div> </div> </div>

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