Being sincerely convinced you've died is not anguish? I'll grant that I am not a mother-tongue speaker of your language, but that argument seems a bit hard to swallow.

The Laws of War (which I suspect your country has by now formally repudiated) specify that prisoners, detainees and Protected Persons (under Geneva) are to be treated with dignity, in a manner similar to that by which one's own troops are treated. Same rations, same housing, same expectation to perform necessary work for their own maintenance. Nowhere in there, nowhere, does it ever say that maltreatment is permissible. And frequently noted is the principle that maltreatment is forbidden. We have the historic example of Bataan, and others, to provide an example of how not to conduct conflict.

And that is regardless of the provocation. Sure, that's one of the glaring asymmetries of irregular and guerilla warfare, but if we stoop to a level of savagery, then that is what we have become. Savages.

Never on my watch, thank you.