50 kilometres from Kilwa [is] Anvil's Dikulushi mine…A small band of rebels had taken over the town [Kilwa]…[Anvil’s Chief Executive Bill Turner said] “[The military] requested assistance from Anvil for transportation. We provided that transportation so that they could get their soldiers down to Kilwa”…As rumours spread that the government soldiers were coming, the people started to flee for their lives into the surrounding countryside…It took the army less than two hours to recapture the town with no casualties. It was then that the killings began…With a ferocity out of all proportion to the incident, the solders terrorised the villagers and looted their homes using Anvil Mining vehicles.