Beasts of No Nation Page #7

Our Father, today

we lost our fellow soldier.

Guide him forever and ever. Amen.

Amen.

Two-I-C.

Yes, sir!

Yes, sir!

This was not God's work.

This was man.

Supreme Commandant was our friend.

Now he's our enemy.

But we are not fearing change,

for we are strong!

Strong and proud!

That is why we should be

taking our own territory...

and filling our own pockets.

Gentlemen, move out.

Let's move.

We are leaving Two-I-C

to be eaten by gogomi and worms.

We are leaving him.

And I am thinking,

"The only way not to be

fighting anymore is to be dying."

Medic!

Where's the f***ing medic?

He's f***ing dead, my man!

People are dying

just like this every day.

Every person I am knowing is dying.

And I am thinking,

"If this war is ever ending, I cannot be

going back to doing child things."

Bullet is just eating everything.

Leaves, trees, ground, person.

Eating them.

Just making person to bleed everywhere.

We are just like wild animals now

with no place to be going.

Sun,

why are you

shining on this world?

I am wanting to catch you in my hands,

to squeeze you until

you cannot shine no more.

That way, everything is always dark

and nobody's ever having to see

all the terrible things

that are happening here.

Preacher!

Sir.

Thank you, sir.

Strika.

Strika! Strika! Strika!

Stand up and let's go!

We are going.

Let's go!

Strika!

Stand up and let's go!

What is wrong with you?

What is wrong?

I am wanting to say to Strika,

"I am tired, too."

I am tired,

and so the words are not

coming out of my mouth.

Strika?

Do you hear that?

A song, just like my mother sang.

Strika?

Strika?

Strika.

Strika! Strika!

Strika!

Strika!

Someone help us.

Strika!

Strika!

Strika!

Strika!

F*** you. Life is sad.

Agu. Agu. Agu!

Sir?

Go get me some f***ing bullets

to be shooting right now. Move!

Move!

Do you have bullet?

Mother.

I can only be talking to you now

because God is not listening.

Your song is making my body to move,

and I am not having to think anymore.

Not about Strika, not about this war,

not about any of the things

that are jumping into my head.

I am wanting to lie down

on the warm ground

with my eyes closed

and the smell of mud in my nose.

Commandant, sir.

We are out from bullet.

It wasn't supposed to be the way

that it has turned out to be.

Everybody betrays you eventually.

But you, I will always protect you, Agu,

because you are my son...

and a son always protects a father.

Commandant, I want to talk to you, sir.

What is all this?

We are leaving, sir.

Who is leaving?

Who and who is leaving?

Two-I-C, go back to your post.

No, sir. We are going, sir.

You are the only one

standing in front of me, stupid.

I am going, sir. No bullets.

What am I going to use to shoot my enemy?

We have been here for months now.

Gold miners, no gold.

No money, no food, no water.

It madness, Commandant.

People sick here and dying every day.

It madness, Commander.

Who want to stay here and die?

I want to go!

- I want to go!

- I want to going!

Who want to stay here and die?

I want to go, sir!

Me, too. I want to go, sir!

Who want to stay here and die?

Nobody want to stay here, sir!

- Nobody want to stay here, sir!

- We want to go, sir.

Then come and tell him how you feel.

Come and tell him

how much we are suffering here.

Come! Everybody, come.

So, you...

you are the big man now, huh?

Hmm?

Where will you be going? Huh?

Will you surrender to the other NDF camp?

No. They will eat you.

And what of ECOMOD? Huh?

That might be better, but what next?

Jail?

War crimes?

Huh?

You think you can just go

and do what you want in peace?

You will go back to your village

and your family will not

associate themselves with you.

Huh? You will be nothing.

You and your uneducated, poor mind,

you'll be nothing.

Nobody will care for you. Huh?

Look at you.

And you will wake up and you will rise

and see the sunrise and see the sunset,

and you can just wait all day, all day,

with thousands of men just like you,

waiting for somebody to give you a job.

Huh?

That is what you want to go and do?

You are stupid!

You have nothing!

No future!

I am your future.

You f***ing die here, sir.

What?

How are you going to shoot me

if you don't have bullets?

And you, Agu?

You wanna kill Commandant?

Hey, Agu, I want you

to kill Commandant. Come.

Push it.

- Push it.

- Do it.

Come, Agu, come.

Put it here. Here!

A-ha! A-ha!

Wanna kill Commandant?

Do it, Agu.

Do it.

Kill Commandant!

You wanna surrender?

Huh?

You wanna surrender?

You wanna surrender?

Yes.

Hey, Agu.

Just get out.

Just remember,

when you are all poor and hungry

you'll remember me!

You'll remember your Commandant.

Just go! Just go!

Come on. Everybody, let's move!

- Yes, sir!

- Come on, let's go.

And know that I will be

calling for you one day.

Go and drink gunpowder tea

and playing draughts.

No, no, no. You remember me.

You remember your Commandant.

You're gonna say, "Yeah!"

Remember, I will call for you again...

and you'll come.

Remember.

They will just lock you up in jail!

You are stupid!

When the time come back,

the other ones,

they'll come eat you.

Just chop for you...

your heart.

Agu, you stay here because they don't...

Halt! Stop there!

Who are you?

- Who are you?

- NDF, sir!

And what is your mission here?

Surrender, sir!

Raise up your arms!

All weapons in the air!

All of you!

Now turn and face the bush!

Don't look at my face!

Put your weapons on the ground!

Step back.

Step back!

And turn around!

I said, turn around!

All right, hands up!

Hands up! Sit on the floor!

Sit down!

Put your hands on your head!

Don't look at my face!

Agu, how are you settling in?

Hmm?

I know things are hard.

I've been there, remember?

We are all here to help you.

Okay?

I am not knowing

how long I am staying here...

but I'm staying here for a long time.

Some week, some month, I am not knowing.

All I am knowing

is how it is feeling here.

I am knowing the sound of people screaming

and the smell of dead bodies...

and I am knowing the feeling of

the brown-brown and djamba in my blood.

Hey, calm down!

This is your home!

No, they are giving us poison there!

- They want us to die!

- Yes!

- They want us to die!

- Calm!

Preacher is tiring of this place.

He's saying, "The war is not over,

"and they are needing fighters like us."

We need money for here.

We need money. Eh?

You can't stay here without money.

And we're soldiers,

fighting is what we know.

That's what we should do.

Have you forgotten?

We have food to eat.

- We have shelter.

- Shh!

And even we learn, we learn.

- And even we learn, we learn.

- Yeah.

You for shut up!

You NRC soldier,

with the talk, you talk too much.

Agu, I can't stay here. I'm leaving.

Preacher!

- Preacher!

- Let's go!

Randy, don't go into the bush again.

Don't follow Preacher.

Randy!

I don't like when you look into my eyes.

So if I look at a table,

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