This is unbelievable. This is not a disciplined, professional fighting force, or even a trained militia. It's a mob, as smartest as its stupidest member. It is literal cannon fodder. These people are incredibly lucky to be alive. In any self-respecting 3rd world banana republic they would have been slaughtered to the last person by enfiladed machine gun positions.
They may yet be. They should quit while they are ahead.