Lets talk about torture for a minute lets talk about what was done to our soldiers...... They took him captive and marched him through the jungle. At night, he was tied spread-eagled on the ground to four stakes to stop him escaping. In the mornings, his face would be so swollen from mosquito bites he was unable to see. Far worse was to come. After an early escape attempt, Dengler was picked up by his guards at a jungle water hole. This was when the torture began. I had escaped from them, they wanted to get even, he said. They would hang him upside down by his ankles, with a nest of biting ants over his face, until he lost consciousness. At night, they suspended him in a freezing well so that if sleep came, he feared he would drown. Other times, he was dragged by water buffalo through villages, his guards laughing as they goaded the animal with a whip. Bloodied and broken, he was asked by Pathet Lao officials to sign a document condemning America, but still he refused, so the torture intensified. Tiny wedges of bamboo were inserted under his fingernails and into incisions on his body to grow and fester. They were always thinking of something new to do to me, Dengler recalled. One guy made a rope tourniquet around my upper arm. He inserted a piece of wood, and twisted and twisted until my nerves cut against the bone. The hand was completely unusable for six months. After some weeks, Dengler was handed over to the even fiercer Viet Cong. As they marched him through a village, a man slipped Denglers engagement ring from his finger. Dengler complained to his guards. They found the culprit, summarily chopped off his finger with a machete and threw him aside, handing the ring back to their horrified captive. I realised right there and then that you didnt fool around with the Viet Cong, he said. Finally, Dengler arrived at his destination: a prisoner of war camp. I had been looking forward to it, he said. I hoped to see other pilots. What I saw horrified me. The first one who came out was carrying his intestines around in his hands. Read more: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-496091/Tortured-razor-sharp-bamboo-fed-alive-ants-The-story-PoWs-incredible-escape-Vietnam.html#ixzz3LkJlNRWE Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 03:47:50 +0000