Koevoet

01Koevoet members received a cash bonus for each confirmed SWAPO guerrilla killed; body parts sometimes served as confirmation.
02The unit operated under the South African Police, not the military, deliberately shielding it from the Geneva Convention's oversight.
03Koevoet's kill-to-contact ratio was the highest of any counterinsurgency unit in the Namibian bush war — approximately 1,000 kills per year at peak.

Parthian-era bronze statue believed by some scholars to represent General Surena.

Decimation. Etching by William Hogarth in Beaver's Roman Military Punishments (1725)

The Hereford Mappa Mundi , about 1300, Hereford Cathedral , England

Koevoet — Afrikaans for 'crowbar' — paid South African police-unit members cash bounties per guerrilla body. They drove Casspir armoured vehicles over corpses to confirm kills and claimed salaries. The bush war had a pay-per-corpse tariff.