He desperately captures Russians or Afghan soldiers fighting for Russians. When he did catch them, he nailed them to sharpened steel piles and tortured them to death. The steel pile was made of the handle and blade of the shovel he used to bury his loved ones...--- "Xiangtaran"
The novel "Xiangtaran" is an autobiographical novel by Gregory David Roberts, who was originally a lecturer in the Australian literature department, experienced the breakdown of his marriage at the age of 25, and the custody of his daughter was also given to his wife.
But two and a half years later, he escaped from a heavily guarded prison and embarked on an eight-year exile in India. In the novel, the protagonist Limba once went deep into the heart of Afghanistan with the Indian "godfather" to provide weapons for Afghan guerrillas, and this experience shows the poverty and parting of life and death caused by the war.
War drives people crazy, and many of the people in the story are drawn into the whirlpool of war and turned into pathetic pieces. In Afghanistan, wars often broke out between military commanders due to differences of political opinion, and some brutal rulers were even more cruel than Afghanistan's foreign enemy, the Russians.
These war-torn countries have always bred a powerful and ruthless ruling class, the Taliban, Ben Bu. Bin Laden, Saddam, Gaddafi... Each of them is cloaked in horror under the depiction of Western countries.
Saddam. Hussein was once a name that made the United States gnash its teeth, and he himself was a controversial figure, the "anti-American hero" was him, the "dictator" was him, the "leader of economic development" was also him, and it was he who promoted the Iran-Iraq war.
In 2003, Saddam Hussein was captured by the U.S. military, and as the leader of Iraq, he was finally sentenced to death by the Americans. In the same year, his cronies died and fled, and almost all of them ended well. His two sons, Uday and Qusay, were also killed by American forces, and Saddam's regime collapsed completely.
Saddam Hussein, as a generation of heroes, was finally arrested by the US military, it can be said that some people rejoiced and some wept, and his death can be regarded as a dignified death compared to others. The death of his son Uday can only be said to be self-inflicted, which is very happy.
Uday was once Saddam's successor, and after he came to power, he was domineering and cruel, he raised lions, tigers and other pets, often fed these animals alive, and his brutal killing was appalling.
Cruel nature revealed from an early age
Uday. Hussein was born in 1964, the eldest son of Saddam. Saddam Hussein had high hopes for this son, and Uday followed Saddam Hussein in and out of military sites from the age of 6, watching how his father shot prisoners and dealt with his political enemies.
Saddam Hussein's intention was to learn how to govern the country with his ears, but apparently Uday only learned how to abuse power, and he showed from an early age to act recklessly, cruelly and boldly.
In 1988, Saddam's bodyguard and confidant Kamel was killed by a stick from Uday, probably because Kamel had proposed Saddam Hussein to take a concubine. Although Saddam was furious about this, he only released his son after 40 days of detention, which also opened the door for Uday's future misdeeds.
Uday recognized the importance of power from an early age, which also developed his habits of profligacy and absurd luxury, he was short-tempered, impatient and intellectual, and his hobbies in life were drinking, smoking, and women. One of his favorite "entertainment" activities when he has nothing to do all day is to abuse people, see torturing others as his own pleasure, he buys many torture instruments on the Internet, and often casts capital punishment on those around him for no reason. In his mind, violence can solve all problems.
Saddam Hussein raised Uday as his heir, perhaps because he was better than the blue, and Uday was even more brutal than Saddam.
In 1992, Uday was appointed as the leader of the "Saddam Hussein Death Squad" to secretly purge his father of dissenting people on the political road, and the Iraqi regime became the family of Saddam Hussein.
In 1996, he personally directed a sweeping operation that shocked home and abroad, shooting the husbands of his two sisters to death for the grave mistake of "betraying" the Saddam family. After Saddam Hussein pretended to forgive them and summoned them home, Uday commanded the death squad to raid the two, which directly led to their death.
Make countless enemies and eat their own evil consequences
Not to mention Uday's reckless evil deeds, an assassination of him quietly took place at the end of 1996, and although Uday survived by luck, he was left with a lifelong disability. His brain was damaged, the muscles of his left foot were severely atrophied, and his left toe was deformed and he could not walk, so he could only walk on crutches.
It is said that Uday could only be pushed around the new palace by the butler every day, and his wheelchair was equipped with a urinal pot, which had to be replaced when it was full.
Originally, Uday's status as the eldest son and heir was unshakable, but after he became disabled, his father took his eyes off him and declared his second son Qusay as his successor.
Uday lived a more debauched life in addition to his pain, resenting his father, and in a letter he wrote: "My father wants to make a name for himself, I don't want to... I never had any love or affection for him." Uday, who withdrew from the center of power, could only spend his days enjoying himself in his secret villa, and the atrocities he committed were even more terrifying, and no one dared to stay by his side for too long, and no one dared to disobey him.
After the United Nations began to sanction Iraq in 1990, Iraq experienced war and economic recession, the people lived in great poverty, 350,000 children died of war or disease in Iraq, at the same time, Uday lived a life of wine pond meat every day, in his luxurious villa expensive wine piled from the ground to the ceiling, drinking for a year can not be finished, Uday also regularly let people buy from Lebanon and Jordan, a month or two can spend 100,000 US dollars on wine.
Although he has been disabled since 1996, he still likes to spend a lot of money on luxury cars, and there are hundreds of cars of all kinds in his underground parking garage, which he set on fire to after the US army invaded Baghdad.
Uday's attitude towards women is also like buying fine wine and famous cars, and he will take everything he wants.
According to his aides, he once pursued a 24-year-old girl but was rejected, and Uday forced the girl to go to his palace and locked up two hungry wolf dogs with the girl, and the poor girl was instantly torn to pieces by the wolf dog, while Uday recorded the process on the side, which can be described as cruel and perverted.
Uday kept animals to show off and to "punish" people he didn't like, and at one point he imprisoned five "political dignitaries" with a tiger and let people be bitten by the tiger. Uday's atrocities made everyone who surrounded him shudder, but no one dared to say a word under his administration.
Kill the rocket, take the blame
When the United States declared war on Iraq in 2003, Saddam's regime collapsed with the capture of Saddam Hussein himself, and Uday and his brother Qusay hid in a mansion of a cronie, but unexpectedly, the cronies secretly revealed their whereabouts to the US military. The U.S. forces immediately fired at them, Uday and Qusay responded with small arms they carried, and the Americans fired rockets at the building where they were hiding, killing them both.
The vicious Uday finally fell to the ground, and compared to the fate of his father Saddam, Uday's death made people completely unsympathetic, and they just wanted to clap their hands.
Before the United States declared war on Iraq, it collected a lot of "criminal evidence" of Saddam's regime, although these were only excuses for the United States to launch war, but they also proved from the side how oppressive the people's lives were under Saddam's dictatorship and dictatorship.
The report states that since he took over Iraq's sports industry in 1984, he has persecuted athletes many times, and even turned the Iraqi Olympic Committee into an institution for imprisoning, torturing and killing athletes, which is unheard of in the history of the world.
The report is full of photographs and evidence of Uday's abuse of athletes, some of which are unbearable to read, and he even urinated on their wounds after beating them. Uday's behavior has exceeded the scope of a normal person, it can be said that he is an extreme power and hedonism, and things that are unreasonable and illegal in the eyes of others are normal to him.
This is because Uday's addiction to power has made him lose his humanity, he witnessed the picture of his father exercising power at a very young age, in his perception as long as power is omnipotent, other people's lives are worthless things in his eyes, no one to tell him the value of life, no one dares to accuse him, this is the disadvantage of being ruled by dictators.
Brief summary:
In Uday, we can actually see the harbingers of Saddam's failure in the future, that is, the ruling class that has lost the hearts and minds of the people and is separated from the people will definitely be overthrown, and countless historical lessons have taught us this.
Moreover, a man like Uday has no political achievements at all, he has nothing but a bad name, he is just an extreme implementer of Saddam's power politics, he has neither the heart to benefit the people nor the ability to build the country, and in the end he ended up dying where he belonged and the people wanted.