<h2 id="CH6"> chapter 6</h2>
<p>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.</p>
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