Rebels mutilated wounded paras rather than killing them outright

Evidence

My poor friend V. lay howling on his bed of stones till morning. He suffered unimaginably, both physically and mentally, a prey to mortal terror. He only really stopped at dawn, when we could perhaps have saved him. For several hours a rebel had been slithering towards him. He could have seen him all that while. There he was. The rebel touched his body. He took away his weapons. Then he gouged out his eyes. Then he slashed his Achilles’ tendons, afraid, perhaps, that he might still come back and die with us. But he didn’t finish him off, merely wanting him to have to lie still and suffer. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 514

Categorization

• FICTION: Could seed a brutal war-story scene — the rebel choosing mutilation over mercy as a slow death.
• XREF: connects to: Rebels mutilated civilians by carving RUF initials and chopping fingers — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 78

Related

• Rebels mutilated civilians by carving RUF initials and chopping fingers (similarity 0.87)

Broader Connections

• Rebels mutilated civilians by carving RUF initials and chopping fingers #exemplifies (0.70) — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 78