NICHOLAS JOHANNES MR VERMEULEN
This is correct.  The word "askaris", one uses if - this was used as a general term.  If the group was out and they returned we always refer to the group as askaris.  I could also have said "the group".  I didn't mean anything funny with this, or I didn't try to hide anything, that if one reads it like this then it means that every askari had to say look, I fired a shot and this guy fired a shot and that everyone had to come and report on their own.  I just meant that the group came and Simon said that there had been a shooting, Chairperson.