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🗓️ 27 August 2019
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Simon Francis Mann is a British mercenary and former British Army officer. He served part of a 34-year prison sentence in Equatorial Guinea for his role in a failed coup d'état in 2004, before receiving a presidential pardon on humanitarian grounds on 2 November 2009.
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0:00.0 | armies don't solve social problems. It isn't the solution, it's a part of the problem. |
0:06.0 | Private military contracting has always happened and will always happen. |
0:14.0 | What's the going rate for retaking a city? |
0:17.0 | Five million to do it and five million bonus after it's done. |
0:21.0 | How do you get involved in a coup d'etat of equatorial Guinea? |
0:25.0 | I want to know that the dictatorship of the tyranny is horrible. |
0:28.0 | If it turns out the town is not really a town, then I'm not interested. It was awful. People were being |
0:35.2 | sacrificed. Eaten. Street boys were being taken off the street and |
0:39.3 | used for sexual purposes and so on and so. |
0:43.0 | We go to her. sexual purposes and so on and so on. |
0:47.0 | We go to Harare to collect the weapons and ammunition and we're surrounded by 20 people and black overalls |
0:50.0 | with MP-5s. |
0:51.0 | Get down off the truck, you're under arrest, we're in prison. |
0:55.0 | It took me to the Black Beach prison and they start interrogating me and within 10 days I had my |
1:02.5 | I thought I think I must have hit the bottom here. |
1:08.0 | Well one Saturday the attorney general said well you're going to get a part and |
1:12.4 | a lot later we're in sitting in the hotel |
1:14.5 | having lunch. |
1:15.5 | How many years had you been there at that point? |
1:18.5 | Four. |
1:19.5 | What do you want people to learn from your story? |
1:23.0 | The real key leadership is personal honesty because people will trust the truth. |
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