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TIL On Christmas Eve 1969, Francisco Macias Nguema had 186 suspected dissidents executed in the national football stadium in Malabo, where 150 were shot and the remaining 36 were buried up to their necks and eaten alive by red ants, while the amplifiers played Mary Hopkin's song Those Were the Days

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