They stamped out freedom and opposition using every method imaginable – psychological warfare, torture and murder. Here are 10 of the most despicable, sinister and evil secret police groups in history. Prepare to be shocked.
10THE STASHI - EAST GERMANY
They practiced Zersetzung - the psychological harassment of enemies. Broke into homes to rearrange contents and drive people mad. Once sent a vibrator to a target´s wife.
09ESA – GREECE
They would play recordings of prisoners´ wives and children crying and screaming. One male victim reported having an iron needle inserted up into his penis.
085 CSU – PHILIPPINES
Victims reported genital electrocution and being fed human waste. Corpses were dumped in public as a warning. Survivors later got 1000 dollar in compensation.
07THE GESTAPO – NAZI GERMANY
Opponents had fingernails and teeth pulled out and testicles crushed in vices. Jean Moulin of the Resistance had his knuckles smashed in a door and handcuffs that slowly broke his wrists.
06SAVAK – IRAN
SIA-trained, SAVAK tortures included acid in nostrils and cattle prods to the rectum. Religious leaders were allegedly stripped and forced to have lap dances from prostitutes.
05MVSN – HAITI
MVSN killed 60.000 people – many by stoning and burning alive. Leader Cambronne sold victims´ bodies and blood to the USA, supplying 6.000 liters of plasma a month.
04STATE SECURITY DEPARTMENT – NORTH KOREA
Run North Korea´s prison camps which house 200.000 inmates. 40% dies from malnutrition. Stealing food is punishable by death – some eat ants and grass to survive.
03NKVD – SOVIET UNION
NKVD executed an average pf 1000 people every day during Stalin´s Great Purge. Raped prisoner Stanislav Kosior´s 16 year-old daughter in front of him so he´d sign a false confession.
02DINA – CHILE
Crushed prisoners´ legs by driving over them with trucks and submerged others in vats of sewage. Female prisoners were subjected to sex with dogs.
01SANTEBAL – CAMBODIA
Ran S-21, a secret prison where only 12 of 17.000 prisoners survived. Difficult inmates were skinned alive, others had all their blood drained by intravenous pumps and babies had their skulls smashed against walls.