Within the Walls of Hell by Taniform Martin Wanki

didn’t, give the order, the deaths occurred on his property and he had to go in for. Besides he had a lot of money which was enough to sponsor a rebellion against me. I had to keep him away by all means.
    Messenger : Let’s say he actually killed your three men and by law he had to face the death penalty. “Anybody who killed another had to die” that is what you’ve said. But you killed thousands. Why didn’t you hand in yourself for execution because that was equally a violation of the law?
    Carlos : Are you crazy? How do you want me to set a trap only to turn around and fall in it? Do you sometimes reason before asking those your questions? I ordered people to be executed. I didn’t go out cutting people’s heads or putting bullets in their heads myself. So, I can still say that I didn’t do anything and be logically correct.
    Messenger : Mills supposedly killed three people and had to face the death penalty. You and your likes, who killed thousands remained free or in cases where you were toppled, you were sent on exile with huge material and financial benefits. Even your ministers who were accused of committing atrocities got promoted instead. That was the culture of impunity you promoted and it helped to push millions into the alms of poverty. Your men in uniform took advantage of it and committed all sorts of atrocities like summary executions, armed robbery, rape and extortions from those they were supposed to protect. When there were outcries against the impunity, you created commissions of enquiry. Those commissions rarely handed in any reports. Even when they were handed in, they remained in drawers. The commissions of enquiry were just there with their long cutlasses to cut long stories short. Those that were killed or were victims of extortion were people that did not matter or were those in the opposition. Their woes benefited you and you will still call it justice if I ask you. But that kind of justice where the net catches only the small fishes and let the big ones go through remains down there. Here, the story is different. Now, tell me something… did the killing of Mills bring your three men back to life?
    Carlos : Not at all. I had to have him killed so that he couldn’t be a threat to me and to others.
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    Messenger: Was he really a threat in the true sense of the word? Yet he had to face the death penalty. If you ordered the death of thousands only to end up entering the grave yourself, where was the sense or benefit in killing in the first place?
    Carlos : The benefit was that those I killed did not disturb me anymore or anybody else.
    Messenger : There you are right…a dead man does not disturb anybody. What happened to Goodwill Johnson?
    Carlos : Ahh! That one too was a case. He was making a turn on the road with his car when my convoy was approaching. I was obliged to slow down because of that. I had so many enemies and they would have seized the opportunity where he was turning his car to kill me. I had to get out of my car and have him punished. He was supposed to bow as soon as he saw me. But he did not and that was crime number two. I asked my men to give him ten lashes of the cane after which I asked him to bow as the law specified. He still refused and told me that I was not his Master and he could only bow to his Master who was far greater than I was. He even added that his Master was omnipotent and omniscient and I was not qualified even to be His shoe cleaner. That was too insulting because I was the giver and taker of life and no one could possibly have been greater than me. I was head of everything like army, administration, judiciary, associations….in short everything. I spent billions making all sorts of portraits of myself which every home in my country was obliged to have one. My portrait was in every office whether private or public. No minister dared to say anything in public without mentioning my name. That way, my omnipotence