Machetes Used in Khundu Church Attack

Machetes gripped by radio-directed Arkutu mobs that hacked through church doors to slaughter roughly 800 Induye refugees sheltering inside. Danny relays Archbishop Kintaka's eyewitness account during C.J.'s tense press briefing, where REPORTER MARK, KATIE, and SHEILA demand details. Reporters force C.J. to confirm the assault's scale, spiking casualty estimates to 15,000 and igniting public outrage over the genocide.

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Purpose

Slash and kill victims during mob attacks on ethnic minorities

Significance

Transform grisly private reports into public crisis, escalating death toll announcements and pressuring the administration toward intervention amid revelations of radio-coordinated violence.

Appearances in the Narrative

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S4E14 · Inauguration Part I

Pressed on Khundu: Identification Tags, Radio-Directed Mobs, and a Rising Death Toll

Machetes are described as the weapons used by the radio-directed mobs to storm the church and slaughter roughly 800 Induye, a visceral detail that turns abstract numbers into graphic, prosecutable violence within the briefing.

Before: Possessed by mobs in Bitanga; tools of violence within the local conflict.

After: Recounted in press testimony as instruments of massacre; now part of public record and evidence of the brutality described.

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S4E14 · Inauguration Part I

Church Massacre Revealed — Khundu Toll Skyrockets

Machetes are referenced concretely as the weapons used by the Arkutu‑directed mob to slaughter roughly 800 people in a church, turning an abstract casualty figure into a visceral image of brutality.

Before: Possessed by mob actors in Khundu; instruments of violence circulating in the conflict zone.

After: Cited in the briefing as the tools of massacre; their mention sharpens public outrage and underlines the atrocity's physical horror.

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