"Sometimes complete villages were massacred in their urging need to establish an Islamic state. But politicians and farmers alike refused to bow down to this form of violence and the country was absorbed in a gruesome civil war." Peter: "We travelled south, sleeping under the twinkling stars in the open fields, guarded by our well trained shepherd dog. We slept in the houses of families who tried to hide us for the slaughter that continued all around us. Quite often police armed with Kalashnikovs and riot guns or even more heavily armed Special Forces also guarded us. After five weeks, the moment Maaike became hospitalised suffering serious wounds on both legs, the authorities realised we were operating as two journalists and put us under surveillance of secret agents. In the meantime we continued our search for the Tritonis Sea."