This is the kind of treatment Prisoners of War or POW get under captivity

The first hours and days of your captivity will be the worst. There are numerous accounts of Croatian and Bosnian soldiers being taken Prisoners of War (POW) by the Serbs and there is also Andy McNab’s famous story how his Special Air Service (SAS) patrol fared in Iraqi captivity during the First Gulf War.

Regarding how POWs were treated, all these stories have many things in common:

• After you are captured, you will be severely beaten up. Say farewell to your teeth! Most modern POWs return without a complete set of them.
• You will be spit at, insulted and most probably paraded in front of the enemy’s civilian population. If you are lucky, your captors will protect you from getting killed by the mob.
• After everyone has satisfied their curiosity and got their opportunity to beat, insult or spit at you, you will be handed over to the Military Police or a similar organisation. This is a moment where you can congratulate yourself! Your chances to survive have increased dramatically.
• Still, you will be mistreated, beaten and maybe even tortured until the last day of your captivity.
• You will be blindfolded, cuffed and thrown on a truck that will bring you to a POW camp or a regular prison.
• If the conditions allow for it, you will be isolated from other prisoners during the first weeks. This way, you will feel more vulnerable and you will also be unable to exchange information with your fellow inmates.
• You won’t sleep much. There will be constant light in your cell; to keep you awake and to increase the psychological pressure.
• After a couple of days in isolation, you will be blindfolded again and brought to an interrogation room. Most prisoners will be severely beaten, even if they start talking. The beating is done to deliver a message: “We can do what we want with you! We can even kill you, right now, right here. You are completely powerless and you better cooperate!”
• After the interrogation, you will be brought back to your cell. Your interrogators will need a certain time to verify your story (if you have decided to talk) and to decide what to do with you.
• If you haven’t talked, you will be called again and probably be beaten up, raped and tortured until you decide to start talking or you are dead.
• However, even if you have decided to talk there will still be more interrogation “sessions” to come, combined with the occasional beating.
• When the interrogation phase is over, you will be send to a compound or room where you will stay with other POWs.
• You will feel a certain relief to be able to talk with some of your own folks, but be aware that some of your fellow comrades might be spies!
• After a couple of days, routine will set in and you will become bored. The only thing that will keep you busy are the chats with your comrades, the chase for food and the constant challenge to keep yourself clean to not get sick: most POW camps just provide the minimum amount of food and water to their inmates which is barely enough to survive.
• If you get sick, you are screwed. With your weakened physical shape, even a small wound can lead to an infection and later to death.
• Your guards might still beat you up from time to time, but it’s not that worse anymore. After all you’ve been through, you probably have gotten used to it. They know it and you know it.
• One day, you will wake up and the asshole guard who has insulted you on a daily basis for the last months is surprisingly silent. For a couple of days, no one is beating you and the food will become a little bit better.
• You will see a doctor or someone who looks like one and they will make you sign a paper that states that you had a wonderful stay and no one had ever mistreated you.
• Then you will be brought outside and there will be some white buses with big red crosses painted on them. You will enter and a guy talking with a Swiss accent will tell you to shut the fuck up and wait with your celebration until you have crossed the border. They will serve you some hot sugary tea and maybe some chocolate.
• After a while, the bus starts moving, escorted by an enemy military patrol. You slowly make your way towards home and it will seem to you like it takes forever until you finally have passed the last enemy checkpoint.

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