Reporter's Note: Recalling the horrors of the past, witnessing the Russian-Ukraine War

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Paul had a story about mosquitoes. I knew the story, but I didn't know the details.

We were waiting for the meeting ofUkrainian farmersto end. They were trying to find a way to sell wheat in the ongoing Russian Navy blockade. We have been waiting for a few hours. I wanted to take a picture of the farmer who brought the wheat harvest. After the rally, I wasted a day because I was wondering if the farmers would do the job. I stood away from the crowd under a tree to avoid sunburn. Security has come to chat.

"Paul doesn't like mosquitoes," I said.

I added, "He was in jail somewhere and mosquitoes kept biting him all night. Now, with mosquitoes around, he's crazy." rice field.

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On March 31, 2022, Ukraine, Ukraine, near Lviv, Ukraine. Workers sort potatoes on the farm of Ukraine Lviv as the attacks on Ukraine continue. (Reuters / Alkis Konstantinidis)((REUTERS / Alkis Konstantinidis))

Security nodded. That was all I knew. I didn't mean to ask Paul about mosquitoes. It's hard to imagine him crazy. I worked with him long ago, but he didn't remember the country or the war. He did it. The Iraqisput the prisoners in a small metal cage.

"We stood up in the cage," he said.

The lateLike the cameraman Pierre Zakzevsky, Paul didn't talk about war. For 30 years he went to several places. However, at a long and slow Soviet hotel supper with me and the guards, the story of mosquitoes began to appear. I was at my little table to the right of Paul. Expecting the story of mosquitoes, I looked straight at the empty chair and wall across from me without saying a word.

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Kinshasa. I went there, but forgot the country. As the story went on, I looked it up on my phone.

M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Withdrew on December 1, 2012, in the city of Goma in the east of the country. The group warned that if Kinshasa did not keep its international commitments, it would not rule out the recapture of sesame seeds. (AFP)

Democratic Republic of the Congo. Fixer spoke Portuguese.

"Oh," I said.

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Paul looked around and smiled, shining his eyes. Portuguese meant Angola meant rebels meant prisons.

Laurent interrogating prisoners at Mobutu Camp Kabila Soldier May 19, 1994 in Kinshasa. Hundreds of Banyamulenge Tutsis were arrested in Kinshasa, the capital of Congo, and their scores were hidden in a rebellion by troops in the eastern part of the country. (REUTERS / Peter Andrews PA / PN)((REUTERS / Peter Andrews PA / PN))

There was more than one mosquito. It was thousands. It was a cloud that could not be seen through many meters. 4 nights in a Kinshasa prison cell with a light bulb overhead and open windows. Outside the window, 20 or 25 mountainswere shot deadand rotten in the sun. Mosquitoes weren't bad during the day, but at night mosquitoes came around the light.

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"I tried to put my arm in my sleeve, but it worked. I didn't go. It's a problem. "