11-06-2014, 07:40 PM
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Raise Your Weapon
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Outback Australia
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Prison in Bangkok isn't fun
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Among the horrors Fellows endures inside Bangkok’s Maha Chai prison are constant bites and stings by ants, mosquitoes and giant sewer rats. Food consists of maggot-riddled rice and ground-up cockroaches. Fellows witnesses a guard beat a convict “so heavily that the prisoner’s eyes bulged from his head with blood spewing from behind them.” He also recalls a man’s skull smashed with the butt of an M16--“Making a rude blurting sound, the Thai’s head just split apart, like a watermelon that had been dropped from a height”--and another prisoner put in a bamboo cage and crushed by an elephant.
And the fun doesn’t stop there! Fellows vividly describes the trauma of being forced to stand in a shit-clogged sewage tank (“Almost as repulsive as the smell was the feeling of this broth creeping around me, seeping into every crevice and pore of my body”) and packed into the “Darkroom,” a tiny sweatbox of a cell crammed with 20 other prisoners. In another cell he’s tormented, he claims, by the wailing of a ghost woman who died years earlier. Fellows appropriately (and understandably) enough becomes addicted to heroin.
Keep in mind that the above only covers Fellows’ Maha Chai years. After three of them he’s transferred to Bang Kwang, or Big Tiger, apparently the “most feared prison in the world.” There he’s forced to drink filthy river water, undergo heroin withdrawal while moldering in solitary confinement, ordered to crawl through the contents of an exploded sewer, and made to witness a flood of maggots disgorged from a lump on a man’s neck (a cockroach having crawled into his ear and laid eggs).
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I hope the extradition proceedings take a while  |
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