Page 59 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

“Damn you. Why do you talk with a French militarist officer
for what?”

A man was quiet and opened wide his eyes to look at them,
while a Viet Minh officer continued to ask a naked man about
the detail of French militarism, and a naked man always shook
his head.

Vietminh officer was sitting on the second ladder step,
ordering his soldiers acting the way that he wants to do for a
naked man. A victim was dangling upside down from the rope
on the cross-beam by two Viet-Minh soldiers. His head touches
the ground and his hands still tied on his back. Another Viet-
Minh soldier held a thin piece of the bamboo, bent it a little bit
to get tension and flying back to a man's scrotum, after each
interrogative question of his leader. A victim twisted his body
under the rope, screaming and gurgling from his throat as a
dagger point in his heart killed a pig. Sometimes a Viet-Minh
soldier dashed a bucketful of water onto a victim's face to make
him recovering after he fell into a state of insensibility of faint.
They kicked and punched to a man's body as they kicked a ball
on the football field. A victim's body was as bag sand for their
exercise, and his blood leaked out from his face and dropped on
the ground.

An officer walked toward the rice-mill after his frequent
questions, grabbed the candlelight on his right hand and held
the candlelight up under the man's penis. The victim screamed in
his painful sorrow and struggled strongly before his body fell
limply under the tension of rope. The Viet-Minh officer laughed,
chucked to perform those actions by himself over what he had
done, and sarcastically. Then he turned to a naked woman after
he gave the candlelight to the soldier, who was standing nearby
him.

"Your husband was dead because he was a reactionary
element for the Party of People. He didn't carry out the order of
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