// War Literature

            S is a horrifying story that starts out bad and only gets worse. After the invasion of S’s village Muslims were taken to camps. These prisoners had no information on where they were headed or for how long. Even after they arrived at the camp everything they knew about their future was rumors, after days of working on the physical aspect of their new home they had come to realize they would be there longer than they hoped. I feel this made the prisoners a lot less at ease.

            They knew people there were being tortured, raped, and killed, but it wasn’t in any systematic way. It was described almost as the acts of cruelty that were occurring were purely based on the mood of the guards, for example when the father was forced to rape his son while the guards watched and laughed. These prisoners became a cruel form of entertainment for these sadistic guards.

            The absolute absence of any details about there future must have made their situation way more terrifying, than if some knowledge or assurance was present, rather than their ideas of their future being purely based on hope. If they had arrived and were given a time when they would be killed or released could have provided some solace. The suspense of not knowing if they would be there for a week or a year, shot in the middle of the night or never, raped or left alone tortured everyone even those who weren’t physically harmed.