Description
Mr. Terry remembers how quickly and easily killing could erupt.
Bob Terry
Bob Terry was born on May 30, 1936 in London, England. He remembers walking in London and seeing a sign saying “come to Canada” and that is when he decided to join. After basic training in Trenton he was posted to the Congo. Later Mr. Terry went to Cyprus where he served with the Royal Signals maintaining radio masts for the British. After leaving the military he worked as a salesman and a commissioner.
Transcript
You could be outside a cafe drinking beer or coffee and all is bright and cheerful and around the corner there’s a massacre going on. It was that sort of environment. Things would erupt, they would explode spontaneously. An argument would develop into people trying to kill each other with machetes or spears and that’s not unusual. You’d walk around a corner and there’d be some poor bugger dead. Why is he dead? Somebody obviously didn’t like him, and it doesn’t take much more than that. I don’t like you, you’re dead. And if I don’t want to do it myself, you pay somebody else. You could have somebody killed there for five dollars American.