French torture of Algerians

""The book is graphic in its details. The general wrote of beating prisoners; of attaching electrodes to their ears or testicles and gradually increasing the intensity of the electrical charge; of pouring water over their faces until they either spoke or drowned. Whether a captive talked or not, he said, he usually had him executed anyway, often doing the job himself. He coolly recalled rounding up 1,500 unarmed prisoners — almost all of them Muslims — then selecting "the die-hards" and having them shot.""