MR VAN STRAATEN
We were already in Ojavelo(?) at the time and in that area the enemy was normally black people.   It was difficult to believe this, because in the time in which I trained, they told us we would only fight Cubans and Portuguese in the area of Angola and the other states in that area involved in that particular war.   We then went to the base we were to man.   Upon arrival there, we built the base, took our positions and we went out daily on patrol.   We went on these patrols throughout the area we manned and we learnt that without information from the people, we had
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to use violence to gain information.   This is how the situation continued.   It was fairly quiet in the Kaokoalands at that time.   We mainly took out landmines, disarmed landmines, and such people as happened to be in trouble, people for instance who hurt themselves in the mountains.