10 Belgian Commandos (Memorial) Multi-Cache

The 10 Belgian Commandos

It is April 6th, 1994. Around 20:20 an airplane, carrying the Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana (and several other high placed people) is shot down and all passengers and crew are killed. At that moment, there are 10 Belgian commandos of the 2nd Commando Battalion (operating as part of UNAMIR) active in the region. Their assignement was to protect the Prime Minister, Agathe Uwilingiyimana, as well as five Ghanaians. The RTLM radio station accused the Belgian peacekeepers of having shot down – or of helping to shoot down – the aircraft.

In the following night, the 10 Belgian peacekeepers tried to reach the house of the Prime Minister to protect her (she was captured and executed later that day). After being stopped by Rwandese soldiers, they were taken to a camp where they were ordered to surrender and hand in their weapons. Still trying to understand what was going on, they refused to surrender and took shelter in the house you see here at the memorial. A heavy fight broke out. The soldiers fought for their lives, but stood no chance against an overwhelming number of Rwandan soldiers. After having been under fire for 2 hours, they were killed by a grenade...

The murder of the 10 soldiers was the biggest single loss of Belgian personnel since the Second World War and provoked outrage in Belgium. On 19 April all Belgian personnel were evacuated from the country. The murder was subject of an investigation, under the title of "Qui a tué nos paras?" ("Who killed our paras?"). The withdrawal and fatal weakening of the UN force was viewed as a catastrophe in Belgian military circles: Gaston Francsson, a decorated Belgian veteran of the Korean War returned the UN medals he had won to the United Nations in protest at the decision. A Rwandan Major, Bernard Ntuyahaga, was later arrested and convicted of the killings.

The Belgian Memorial for the 10 Commandos

The cache

This was initially set up as a traditional cache. However, the Belgian armed forces didn't agree on having a geocache on the premises. Therefore I had to change the setup. It's now a very easy multi (more an offset with several data to find at the initial waypoint and then a short walk to the final coordinates) and the cache itself is located just "next door" on walking distance! So, you do still have to visit the memorial.

So, to get to the actual cache, please go to the published coordinates, find the answers to the following questions and then solve the equations to get the coordinates for the cache:

1. On the information sign at the coordinates (starting with "On 07 April 1994, while assuring the security of....", what is the 2nd word of the 11th line from above? (Take the word value, add up to one digit! This is A.)

2. Walk to the memorial (the 10 granite pillars). At the end of the path, entering the circle, look at the the pillar on the left (with the carves facing the house): what age was the soldier that is represented by this pillar? (This age is the number for B.)

3. Walk inside the building and look at the stories, pictures and signs. There is one sign about "human rights", stating Article 1 and Article 3. In the English part of Article 1, what is the last word on the 4th line? (word value, one digit. This is C.)
The signs inside have been totally changed!! The sign I was refering to is gone. Until I have found an alternative, I will just give the answer here: C=9.

4. Find the sign stating "This place is dedicated to the memory of 10 Belgian commandos". What is the 4th word on the THIRD line of this sign? (again: word value and add up to ONE digit only! This is D.)

Now make a quick and easy calculation:

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