Coercion-based internment failed to deter Egyptian soldiers from desertion

Evidence

Admittedly, the brutality used to punish the soldiers who attempted to leave the camp in this case might be due to the fact that they had mutinied and had gone so far as to hold their commanding officer prisoner. This case is significant, however, for it shows that the regime of internment that was based on the actual or implicit threat of the use of force was not effective: it proved inadequate to deter the soldiers from passing out of the gates of the camp. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 666