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Teen who fled Queens finds war front in Congo
Francis Moka, a 16 year old from Queens, traveled to Brazzaville in 1996 to learn his roots and ended up on the Cobra militia front lines during a civil war. He describes fear, combat, loot, and a gunshot wound behind his ear as he witnessed the fall of Brazzaville and the Presidential Palace.
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Francis Moka
New York
Brazzaville
Queens
Francis
Queens Borough
Edouard Moka
Republic of Congo
United Nations Mission
Moka
France
United States
Central Africa
Denis Sassou- Nguesso
Pascal Lissouba
Kinshasha
Congo
Congo River
Sassou-Nguesso
The
Cobras
Cobra
Pointe Noire
Sassou- Nguesso
Army