Chapter V
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They shot the six cabinet ministers at half-past six in the morning
Against the wall
Of a hospital
There were pools of water
In the courtyard
There were wet dead leaves
On the paving of the courtyard
It rained hard
All the shutters of the hospital were nailed shut
One of the ministers was sick with typhoid
Two soldiers carried him downstairs and out into the rain
They tried to hold him up against the wall
But he sat down in
A puddle of water
The other five stood very quietly against the wall
Finally
The officer told the soldiers
It was no good
Trying to make him stand up
When they fired
The first volley
He was sitting down in the water with his head on his knees