They should instead take comfort in the fact that African askaris and Indian sepoys fought as mercenaries in the armies of the British Empire. |
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They were local askaris who thought we were rebels from the north. |
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With the outbreak of World War I, askaris of the WAFF took part in the capture of the German colonies of Togoland and Kamerun. |
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Together with Askaris based at the police's Vlakplaas unit, they had been instructed to hijack or damage vehicles, smash shop windows and assault people during the marches. |
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Dahl was made a lieutenant in the King's African Rifles, commanding a platoon of Askaris, indigenous troops serving in the colonial army. |
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