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🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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In Indiana, a young preacher forms his own church. The goal: to spread a radical political message.
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0:00.0 | It's the morning of November 19th, 1978 in Guyana, a country on the northern coast of |
0:16.9 | South America. |
0:18.4 | A soldier and about a hundred other members of the Guyenees military are trudging through |
0:22.6 | a dense jungle in the remote northwest region of the country. |
0:26.3 | The air is thick and humid, and the soldier is worn down from marching all night, pushing |
0:31.4 | through an endless canopy of trees full of poisonous snakes and insects. |
0:36.2 | With the ground so soggy from rain, it feels like the soldier is walking through a puddle |
0:40.6 | of glue. |
0:42.1 | And the long night hasn't only been physically exhausting. |
0:45.6 | Just yesterday, dozens of Americans were attacked at a local airstrip, and five were killed. |
0:51.2 | One of the victims was an important politician back in America, a United States congressman. |
0:56.5 | And rumor has it that the people responsible were members of a fringe religious group living |
1:01.0 | in a settlement carved out of the jungle. |
1:03.6 | The Guyenees soldier and the other members of the military were dispatched to the airstrip |
1:07.6 | in order to investigate, and when they arrived, they discovered a site of unspeakable carnage. |
1:13.4 | People gunned down in cold blood, a small airplane riddled with bullet holes, and a number |
1:18.4 | of survivors crying out in pain begging for help. |
1:22.7 | Some of the soldiers stuck around to watch over the airstrip and coordinate the evacuation |
1:26.9 | of survivors. |
1:28.3 | But the rest of the group continued marching forward, making their way to the religious |
1:32.4 | group's settlement, and they were given the instruction to restore order and take whatever |
1:36.9 | steps were necessary to bring the murderers to justice. |
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