How cruel are U.S. prisons? After his arrest, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was subjected to inhumane torture, humiliated and oppressed by prison guards. It can be hard to believe! Not only did you have to face the beatings and ridicule of your jailers every day, but even sleeping became a luxury. So how did Saddam Hussein spend the three years in prison? Why did the U.S. military target him so much?
In 2003, the United States bypassed the United Nations and unilaterally launched a military strike against Iraq on the grounds that iraq harbored weapons of mass destruction. With the defeat of the Iraqi army, Saddam Hussein had to embark on the road of exile again. However, this time he was not so lucky, after three years of difficult escape, he was finally captured by the US army.
When Saddam Hussein was dragged out of the cellar by the U.S. military, the U.S. military pried open his mouth with a knife to prevent him from swallowing cyanide to commit suicide, and later through DNA testing, the U.S. military quickly confirmed his true identity. Saddam Hussein was then imprisoned by U.S. forces in a Cropper prisoner-of-war camp near an Iraqi airport. In his speech, the representative of the United States promised to give the former Iraqi president the greatest possible respect, which is actually a complete joke. From the moment Saddam Hussein was arrested to his death, the physical and mental torture of him by the U.S. military never stopped.
When Saddam Hussein came in, the whole camp began to become very strict, the guards stepped up patrols twenty-four hours a day, and the courtyard walls were lined with extreme weapons such as barbed wire and power grids, for fear that he would escape. The U.S. military held Saddam Hussein in a single, dark, damp cell with a small bed, a small table and a worn-out plastic chair. However, just about ten square meters away, the US military installed three cameras to monitor Saddam's every move in an all-round way without dead ends. It can be said that there is no privacy at all here, and the US military has carried out a double cruel torture of Saddam Hussein's body and mind.
First, Saddam Hussein faced in his cell the brutal beatings of the U.S. military every day and night. As long as the jailers were in a bad mood, they would directly take Saddam Hussein out, drag him out and beat him brutally, and when the gas subsided, they would throw him into the cell like a dead dog. After this torture, Saddam Hussein often had a blue nose and swollen face, bruised, and in pain, he did not even have the strength to move his fingers. However, this kind of inhuman torture is not only once, but every day, Saddam Hussein often has old wounds not healed, new wounds come out, in the three years of ruthless torture, there is no good place in the whole body, and the bones on his body do not know how many broken roots.
Saddam Hussein once asked the U.S. military for a pen, a stack of papers, and a book, but the prison guards, fearing that he would commit suicide, fulfilled his wish for the book. So Saddam Hussein held a book and read it whenever he had free time, hoping to get spiritual relief from the revelation in the book, but the American army that frantically tortured him would not fulfill his wish. Once Saddam Hussein felt laid-back and happy because he was immersed in the contents of the book, the guards would directly interfere with his reading with loudspeakers. If Saddam Hussein hadn't been moved, the guards would have rushed straight in and beaten him.
In addition, the DESTRUCTION OF SADDAM by the US military is not limited to the body, but more terrible is the mental torture. The jailers installed three one-hundred-watt incandescent lamps in Saddam's cell, which were on all year round, for three years. The intense light made Saddam unable to sleep, and even if he did, he would sometimes be awakened by various noises deliberately created by the guards. In the cell, as long as he was in a bad mood, the guards would drag Saddam Hussein out and beat him up when he had just fallen asleep, and after the beating, he would tie him to the bed and face the bright incandescent lamp. In this case, Saddam Hussein could not sleep at all, and once he fell asleep, the vicious prison guards would also wake him up with water and laugh at Saddam Hussein's pained expression.
What is even more excessive is that the arraignment officials will often deliberately interrogate Saddam Hussein in the middle of the night, and the first trial is a whole night, so that he cannot rest normally. In addition, the prison guards also came up with ingenious ideas to continue torturing Saddam Hussein in the middle of the night in the name of medical examinations. The doctor who examined him took a glare flashlight and opened Saddam's eyelids to make a dose of radiation. Whenever this happened, Saddam Hussein's whole body trembled, his mouth was whimpering, he was gasping for heavy breath, his body was convulsing, the bitter water in his stomach was gushing, and the whole brain nerve seemed to be torn apart.
Even after such a painful torture, the jailers still had no intention of giving up. In order to prevent Saddam Hussein from lying in bed, they deliberately installed a large horn in the door of the cell, and as long as Saddam Got up a few minutes late, they would let the loud noise from the horn wake him up. Saddam Hussein, who had been brutally tortured all night and had a hard time to rest for two or three hours, would now stand up in pain. However, this kind of action is often unconscious, an instinctive reaction after a long period of torture. On several occasions, Saddam Hussein, who stood up, fell into his cell in a dizzy state, knocking his head to the point of bleeding without noticing it. This life lasted more than a thousand days, and according to Saddam's later self-report in court, his normal sleep time was less than three hours a day.
In addition, in the process of interrogation, once Saddam Hussein does not cooperate slightly, the jailer will continuously shock Saddam's head with low-frequency electrical pulses, which is not fatal, but it can paralyze people's whole body, and it is better to live than to die. When tortured to the point of losing consciousness and unable to speak, the U.S. military injected Saddam Hussein with a powerful stimulant. The power of this stimulant is very powerful, the concentration is even more than ten times that of athletes, and it can make people continue to be excited for several days and cannot get normal rest. As soon as Saddam's eyes narrowed, the jailer would use a glare flashlight to illuminate his eyes to wake him up and continue to torture him.
And in order to get more information, the US military will inject Saddam Hussein with a drug that makes people lose consciousness and hallucinate during interrogation, and completely destroy Saddam's mental defense line. When he was hungry, he lured him with food and extracted key information from it. But Saddam Hussein's perseverance was staggering, and no matter how much the U.S. military tortured him, he kept his mouth shut and did not provide any information they wanted. But what followed was an even more brutal physical torture inflicted on him by the angry U.S. military. Seeing this scene, people can't help but sigh, and people can't imagine that this once invincible Middle Eastern tyrant has now become a prisoner of the order, and has been wantonly ravaged by the US military, with no dignity to speak of. If this were an ordinary person, he would have been unable to bear it, but Saddam Hussein was not an ordinary person, and he not only resisted this inhuman torture, but also persisted for three years.
In addition, the US military not only tortured Saddam Saddam physically and mentally, but also insulted Saddam's personality psychologically and mercilessly. In Saddam's religious and spiritual beliefs, clothes are a manifestation of a person's civilization, and if they are not neatly clothed, they are blasphemous to their own personality. We can see that people in Central Asia wear robes with wide sleeves and a hem that covers the knees. However, when the US military caught Saddam Hussein, it directly forced Saddam Hussein to strip naked and wear nothing, and to undergo a so-called medical examination in public. Not only that, but the frenzied US military also ruthlessly filmed this scene. When Saddam Saw these pictures, he almost burst out of blood.
And when saddam Hussein's expression collapsed in pain, the hearts of the AMERICAN personnel will be greatly satisfied. The Middle Eastern tyrants who were once sought after by tens of millions of people are now reduced to playthings in their own hands, a treatment they have never encountered in their lives, and the sense of pleasure and comfort in their hearts is simply indescribable. For Saddam Hussein, who pursues dignity and reputation, such a trick is simply a great shame, and his psychology and spirit have collapsed to the extreme.
Moreover, saddam Hussein was almost naked in the process of being imprisoned, with messy hair and wearing only a pair of white shy pants. Coupled with the three twenty-four-hour normal cameras in the cell, there is simply no privacy to speak of, and every move is exposed to the surveillance of The American personnel, and Saddam Hussein wants to die. What is even more unbearable after that is that in order to humiliate Saddam Hussein, the guards directly planted two American flags on his naked, only one pair of underwear, and the two guards took a group photo together to show the victory of the AMERICAN army. Saddam Hussein in the photo bowed his head and had a loveless expression. It can be said that this move by the US military is not only a humiliation of Saddam Hussein himself, but also a great harm to the hearts of the Iraqi people. As a result, as soon as the photo came out, the entire Iraqi population became angry and denounced the crimes of the US military.
But the United States remained obstinate and directly and publicly announced the cancellation of Saddam Hussein's status as a prisoner of war. This means that Saddam Hussein will no longer be protected by international prisoner of war laws, and the U.S. military can treat Saddam Hussein with impunity. In addition, in order to give Saddam Hussein more torture and stimulation, the jailers have figured out some more interesting ways of torturing. They believe that only close relatives can stimulate Saddam Hussein's heart and make him completely mentally broken.
They knew that Saddam Hussein was very fond of his son Uday, but Uday had already been brutally killed by the American army while Saddam Hussein was on his way to escape. Saddam Hussein's tragic death was unacceptable to Saddam, so the jailers decided to start on it. In order to revive saddam Hussein's painful memory, the jailers often stimulated him with pictures of Uday's tragic death. Every time Saddam Hussein saw it, his heart was in pain, his mouth let out a series of wailing, and his mental pain was extreme, and it was obvious that the US army had achieved its goal.
Saddam Hussein once wanted to go on a hunger strike because he could not stand this inhuman torture, but the US military would never fulfill his wish. Until Saddam Hussein has officially confessed his crimes, the US personnel will not stop torturing Saddam Hussein and allowing him to die easily. As long as Saddam Didn't eat on time, the guards would pry his mouth open and pour food directly into his mouth, not caring about Saddam's own opinions and feelings. In addition, Saddam Hussein's attempt to commit suicide in his cell was simply not feasible, because all the angular objects in the room were wrapped in special materials, as were the walls, tables, chairs, etc. Coupled with the three cameras of the US personnel and the twenty-four hours of uninterrupted guarding, Saddam Hussein's every move did not want to escape the "eyes" of the prison guards, let alone want to end his life.
In such a brutal torture every day, the U.S. military would give Saddam Hussein three hours of free time, but we should not take it for granted that the Americans were merciful. In fact, they did this to give him a buffer time for fear that Saddam Hussein would be tortured into insanity. And when Saddam Hussein was rested and settled, the U.S. military would launch a new round of more brutal torture on him. It was as if Prometheus, bound, was eaten by a falcon every day, and would grow back the next day, continuing to undergo the relentless torture of the previous day, and the cycle would never stop. Prometheus will eventually have Hercules to save him, but Saddam Hussein will never have a day of liberation, and the only end that awaits him is death.
The week before the trial was arguably the happiest moment in Saddam's three years, when the U.S. military stopped all means of torture, and Saddam Hussein got a good rest and recovered his mental state slightly, and this was nothing more than a hypocritical effort by the United States to cover up the crimes they had committed against Saddam in the past three years and to have a good impression in front of the world. In court, Saddam Hussein, relying on his own will, loudly accused the United States of ruthlessly destroying its own body and mind in the past three years, and rejected all the crimes that the United States forcibly held on its head.
Not only that, in court, Saddam Hussein also vigorously denounced the crimes committed by the United States in Iraq over the years. But all the personnel in the courtroom were arranged in advance by the United States, so even if Saddam Hussein shouted through the throat, he would not get a response from anyone. In this way, Saddam Hussein, who had suffered three years of cruel torture, was finally sentenced to hanging. On the last day of his life, the U.S. military was still humiliating Saddam Hussein, directly choosing the time of execution on Eid al-Adha. When Saddam Hussein found out, he scolded directly, but all that followed was the merciless beatings of the jailers. In addition, in order to retain the last decency, Saddam Hussein rejected the executioner's hood and calmly chose to die.
In fact, these are just the tip of the iceberg, and the abuse that Saddam Hussein suffered in prison is far from what we can imagine. From the day he was arrested, he was doomed to be slaughtered. Saddam's decades as Iraqi president have been mixed. There are dictatorships, the suppression of dissidents, the waging of war; It has also contributed to the recapture of oil resources from the United States, so that the poor and weak Iraq has become one of the richest countries in the Middle East, and the quality of life of the people has been greatly improved. His success or failure is up to the Iraqi people to evaluate.
But the crimes committed by the United States in Iraq cannot be concealed in any way. More than a decade later, the U.S. military has not brought so-called peace and prosperity to Iraq. On the contrary, there was constant war and chaos, and the people were miserable. The U.S. military slapped its ass and left, leaving behind a devastated mess. Therefore, the affairs of Iraq should be decided by the Iraqi people, and the United States has no right to interfere. In short, as long as there are hegemonic countries like the United States in the world, the flames of war will not really be extinguished.