In "In the Shadow of War," how do the soldiers treat the woman when they find her?

It is clear that when the soldiers find the woman they
have called a "spy" that they are very violent and threatening. Remember this is
narrated using the third person limited point of view - everything is seen from Omovo's
vision, which heightens the shock of seeing a woman treated in this fashion with the
threat of impending violence. The soldiers call the woman a witch and one of them begins
to slap her to try and make her tell where the "others" are. Then a soldier rips the
woman's veil from her:

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Her head was bald, and disfigured with a deep
corrugation. There was a livid gash along the side of her face. The bare-chested soldier
pushed her. She fell on her face and lay
still.

It is interesting that
at this point Omovo recognises that what he thought were dead animals on the river banks
were actually dead men - seeing this violence has opened his eyes to other acts of
violence that he had previously been blind to. The woman then gets up, and spits at the
soldier in the face. The soldier then shoots the woman in cold blood and Omovo
flees.

The shock of these events is heightened by the use
of the narrative style - these events are shared with us just as they are with Omovo -
we are silent observers of these atrocities and therefore share the same shock and
feelings of guilt and horror that Omovo feels.