[kellyhound]

Aug, 2013. Prison guards viciously beating dozens of inmates in Luanda’s central prison, with the assistance of the police.

The reason for these beatings remains unclear, but our Observer is glad that this violence, which is commonplace in Angolan prisons, has been made public.

Roughly 30 prisoners, most of them with their shirts off, are gathered in a courtyard and beaten one after the other by prison guards, policemen, and, most surprisingly, firefighters.

The same scene is repeated over and over again: the victim is dragged on the ground and then surrounded by a group of men who beat him all over using truncheons.

The last part of the video shows prisoners covered in blood, looking shell-shocked. One of the prisoners says he has a broken arm.

A newspaper spoke to two Observers who both claim that this footage was filmed on a mobile phone by a policeman in the detention facility of Comarca Viana in Luanda.

In fact, during certain parts of the video, other policemen can be seen filming as well. When contacted by the news paper, activists from Maka Angola, an Angolan human rights organisation, explained that the person filming the shocking scene told them he was trying to expose these practices.

Angola suffered through a long civil war [from 1975 to 2002]. Many of the policemen and other officers working in the prisons received military training during this period and saw combat.

They returned traumatised and filled with hate. They are extremely violent men who no longer have any notion of right and wrong.

So it is unsurprising that such heinous acts are occurring today. Another crucial problem affecting prison populations is overcrowding [according to Angolan authorities, the 34 prisons in the country hold nearly twice as many prisoners as their maximum capacity], which creates tensions among the inmates and, as a result, tensions with the prison personnel.

[docfr8]

Pretty fucked up shit...

If they did that to people in the prisons in the U.S. it would probably make mother fuckers think really fucking hard about returning...

Im sure those poor bastards in that prison remember this shit when the are out free..

[deanmine]

that was the extra large can.. extra large can of WOOP-ASS

[Hobbslefthand]

It makes you wonder just how altruistic the cameraman is when he's apparently laughing his head off.
But then again the footage did get out there, so who knows.

[seven2heaven]

Originally Posted by docfr8 ↗

Pretty fucked up shit...

If they did that to people in the prisons in the U.S. it would probably make mother fuckers think really fucking hard about returning...

Im sure those poor bastards in that prison remember this shit when the are out free..

BRUTAAL!!!....What is this world coming to?!guards,policemen,firefighters...etc

1 world government will start killing people if they refuse the mark of the beast...and everybody else who works for the government have to enforce this law

[Shakey]

Looked like chaos.

[audiomouth]

Jeopardy -What are human rights

[blancadon]

Note to self. Stay out of Angola.

[dale4978]

oba ouba kfc ouba

[Kelseecat65]

Originally Posted by blancadon ↗

Note to self. Stay out of Angola.

No kidding!