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- 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.