American Civil War prison camps were torture grounds. Both sides of the war commit atrocities to prisoners of war who got captured; atrocities to the degree of what you see in this picture:
![[Image: 375px-Andersonvillesurvivor.jpg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Andersonvillesurvivor.jpg/375px-Andersonvillesurvivor.jpg)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_C...ison_camps
Yes; this was a union soldier who got imprisoned by the south.
It seems that this tactic of torture is a major feature that comes with most -if not all- western governments; this torture happened over and over in western-waged wars like the infamous Nazi prison camps; it seems that Nazis were just following the protocol that was followed in the western secular world.
We even saw the same gets repeated by the U.S in 2003's invasion of Iraq: the infamous Abu-Ghuraib American prison is the example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib...oner_abuse
![[Image: AbuGhraibAbuse-standing-on-box.jpg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/AbuGhraibAbuse-standing-on-box.jpg)
Torture of prisoners is indeed a tool of suppression that we know exactly by now where it's advocated and even legalized; and remember the words of the president of the U.S himself:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_C...ison_camps
Yes; this was a union soldier who got imprisoned by the south.
It seems that this tactic of torture is a major feature that comes with most -if not all- western governments; this torture happened over and over in western-waged wars like the infamous Nazi prison camps; it seems that Nazis were just following the protocol that was followed in the western secular world.
We even saw the same gets repeated by the U.S in 2003's invasion of Iraq: the infamous Abu-Ghuraib American prison is the example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib...oner_abuse
Torture of prisoners is indeed a tool of suppression that we know exactly by now where it's advocated and even legalized; and remember the words of the president of the U.S himself:
