The soldiers being ordered to separate into groups of ten for decimation decided by themselves. Then the nine surviving people, of each group, being ordered to carry out the executions by hand. By stoning.
It's the following passage that haunts Maria and the reader.
"We relinquished our freedom that day, and we were more than happy to see it go. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say, "They told me to do it! It's their fault not mine."
The freedom, God help us, to say "I was only following orders."
The decimation created more living dead: Uninfected living dead.
by ofbalance
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For me it was the little girl telling her experience by making zombie sounds