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I heard a podcast from a journalist that was there a few years before and after the Belgians left. And he also told how he still vividly remembers sitting in a boat with two Belgian soldiers, they had to accompany him while traveling. And they started to compete and bet on their marksman skills. They ended up with using a random civilian they saw at the distant shore as a target. Just to see whether they could kill him from their current distance. One of them was successful.
But the journalist also mentioned that this was something of the less horrible stuff that was going on there. He was just so baffled they were so open and carefree about it on front of a foreign journalist.