And one of the most interesting characters from "Mid-PoW":

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Marcel Hondo-Demissie lead a Congolese revolution against Ethiopia, who had managed to seize the area on a promise of protection against a withering Belgian Empire, Marcel had been born and raised during the era of the Belgian Congo and had witnessed the colonial abuses. By the seventies the Congo was swept up by the Ethiopian Pan-African Empire. But to Marcel there was little difference, in the mid-seventies he launched a revolution to oust Ethiopian suzerainty of the Congo and had succeded enough to seize Kinshasha and declare it an independent state for a brief time.  While known as a brilliant strategist who had lead a rag-tag army to beat an armored column, he was also notable for his appreciation of classical music and women's clothes and make-up and not shy about it.

Ultimately, his revolution was put to the end by the Somali-born field marshal of the Ethiopian Pan-African army, Hassan al-Somalied (likely misspelled) who to draw out and cause tension in his ranks amputated the arms of the children of the tribal group that had been Marcel's largest supporters. The dissension and personal fury by the tribal commanders to put an end to Hassan's brutality sufficiently destabilized his ranks and he was able to be defeated and captured. And while Marcel faced execution, the respect shared between two commanding officers was enough that Hassan laid out the reality to him, suggesting that suicide would be a more honorable alternative than execution. Hassan gave him his knife, which Marcel killed himself with.

Hassan would later defend the amputation of the limbs of infants and children and deflect criticism with, "There's no treachery in winning" and that only treachery and dishonor is what's shouted by the losers.
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