In the village of Tigo, there is a mud and thatch cabin unlike any other, though it looks like other dwellings in the forest settlement. Its front yard is a series of brown clay mounds and deep holes. When police invaded the settlement a year ago, this was just another house opening to a garden of maize, cowpeas, groundnuts, among others. But a strong smell and swarms of flies caught their attention. When the crops were cleared, they discovered the biggest mass grave so far with 65 bodies. In some of the older graves, bodies are pairs of a man and a woman, but this area was different. The newer graves had many bodies; one had 12, stacked on top of each other.
Some of the bodies were thin and emaciated, but a section contained remains of well-built, seemingly healthy and well-fed people but which bore fractures and other evidence of violence.
The house of Tigo is perhaps the only one in the world whose windows open to a view of a huge mass grave.