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“A lot of voices were very loud, expressing their anger for taking a Christian military person as a hostage and killing him while they kept their mouth shut from saying anything supporting those poor Muslims who are in prisons and being tortured by the hands of the cross-believers.” Some of the modern world’s worst forms of torture have been suffered by detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison or Baghdad Correctional Facility in Iraq. The prisoners locked in there have faced torture in the form of sexual abuse, derogatory levels of humiliation, sodomy as well as other forms of heinous indecency. The worst part about the entire scenario was that that a number of explicit photos were published for the world to see, without keeping in mind the thoughts and feelings of the prisoners and their families. Members of the US CIA crossed the line in the process of interrogation of these prisoners and many had even been removed on charge of dereliction of duty, assault and even battery. Charles Graner and Lynndie England had been reported by a number of journalists and media persons to have themselves constituted a vast amount of torture to the prisoners and were sentenced to jail for a long time for the same. (Hersh, 2007) Torture to human beings is something that has been carried on for a very long time indeed as mostly minority groups are captured and subject to some of the worst forms of trauma and physical as well as mental pain in order to satisfy the thirst of the torturer. In many ancient civilizations as well, torture was seen as something very common indeed. Convicts were treated horrendously with a view to scare the rest of the population and make them comprehend that they should never repeat what the prisoners did otherwise they would eventually find themselves in the same position. Cruelty comes from the mind of a person and man turns sadistic when he finds that his demands are not being met. In ancient Greece, the Brazen Bull was a method used to torture a person in a way that he would eventually get roasted. Perillos, an Athenian brass worker suggested this technique and carved a hollow brazen bull in which a person was inserted. The bull was kept over a fire and the person inside eventually would feel the heat and die due to suffocation and pain released due to extreme temperatures. When the person screamed out in pain, the screams would come out of the bull in a manner that looked as if the bull was enraged. (Historical Facts, 2010) In Roman Catholic Churches, a device called Heretic’s Fork was used as one of the main techniques torture those who did wrong. The fork had two ends clawed with a strap in the middle which was secured around a person’s neck. His hands were tied behind his back as one end of the fork dug into his chin and the other into his chest. If the person moved, the fork would dig into his skin causing his veins to bleed. (Historical Facts, 2010) The middle ages or the Medieval Period has been also known far and wide for the kind of torture people were put through. Modern day depictions through the help of books and movies are not enough to reflect the kind of pain people suffered in those ages simply because they just are not explicit enough. The use of Sick Hanging Cages were very common back then as prisoners or convicts were made to enter iron cages naked and stay there till they died. These cages were placed in the open and prisoners were not given any food or facilities and when they died, their bodies were left to rot there as well till they were eaten up by scavengers. In the ancient Chinese civilization, the process of slow slicing commenced on the basis of ideas of Ling Chi.