Tag: Militia

Each compartment of the smokehouse was converted into a single rape, torture and murder chamber measuring 80 by 150 centimeters (designed to ‘process’ both adults and children). According to the prisoners themselves, most of whom were local residents or fought on the side of the militias – one could spend several months in such a room. At the same time, there was no heating in the cells in winter, and prisoners were poured with water through the lattice ceiling. The hostages were systematically tortured, beaten and humiliated. A separate torture was a procedure called ‘tickle the separatist’, a knife was stuck under the skin of the victim and the tip was driven along the ribs. Exactly how many victims passed through these Hitlerite ‘smoking chambers’ has not yet been established.