Antara Darah dan Hati: Dream Reality English Translation

Chapter 24 Part 4 "The Fall of Tyranny"

POV Muhamed

I along with the demonstrators who were in the front row ran into the Volksraad building then, one of the protest coordinator with his loud speakers asked us all to scatter in all directions to find the members of parliament starting from looking for them in the plenary room of the Volksraad building and looking in other rooms if they not in the plenary.

The demonstrators who had jostled to fill the Volksraad building began to disperse in various directions, including brother Lodewijk and me. We along with some other demonstrators entered and searched various rooms in the Volksraad building and broke down the locked door of each of the rooms that we entered.

In several corners of the Volksraad building, several members of the Schutterij force who still did not want to surrender had tried to block the demonstrators and pointed the muzzle of the firearms that they hold at the demonstrators but, because we were also escorted by some members of the Schutterij force who sided with us, after the Schutterij personnels who were guarding the interior of the Volksraad building exchanged ideas with some personnels of the Schutterij force who sided with us, in the end those Scutterij personnels who were still loyal to this regime lowered their weapons and allowed us to carry out our actions.

Some time had passed, brother Lodewijk and I with the other demonstrators stopped walking when we arrived in front of a large door that seemed to be the entrance to the plenary hall of the Volksraad building. Several demonstrators tried to pull and push the door to opened it but the entrance door to the plenary hall could not be opened. Several other demonstrators also came forward and tried to open the entrance door to the plenary hall of the Volksraad building, but even with all of their strength, they were still unable to open the entrance to the plenary hall of the Volksraad building .

In the end, some demonstrators took the initiative to go looking for an object that they could use to break down the entrance door to the plenary hall. I and brother Lodewijk with the rest of the demonstrators waited for the return of those demonstrators who had gone and after waiting for around two hours, eventually the demonstrators together with several personnels of the Schutterij force whom sided with us the protesters came back with some battering rams.

The Schutterij force members who are on our side along with the demonstrators who just came back not only bring just a few battering rams but, those battering rams are tied to one another so that those battering rams formed a long united battering ram in which those batterings rams that are connected to one another can be swung by many people at once so that the result of the force from the thrust that we all do together will be huge enough that it'll break the entrance door that is being locked and blockaded.

Brother Lodewijk and I with the other demonstrators who had been sitting on the floor finally stood up, we all huddled with each other, trying to give the demonstrators and the members of the Schutterij force who are siding with us some space so they could swing those tied battering rams together at once.

They tried to swing the tied battering rams with all their might but because of they were too heavy for them to be swung, when the front end of the battering ram hit on the surface of the entrance door, the force that hits the surface of the entrance door is so small that they were asking for several other volunteers to help them swing the tied battering rams together with them.

I with brother Lodewijk and several other protesters stood up and immediately hold a part of the tied battering rams. Once we strengthen our foothold, we waited for the command from the person who stand in front all of us to be given to us so that we can push the tied battering rams together.