This article (via Daily Pundit) says:
Barechested commandos brandishing knives take turns to charge towards a live dog, tied and spreadeagled between vertical poles. They slash and stab the helpless, yelping animal until it dies. Then, in a grotesque act of military machismo, the soldiers eat the dog's heart and drink its blood.
Learning to kill: a live dog is tied to two poles ready for slaughter
The troops belong to the Peruvian army and the slaughter of the dog is the climax of a series of "bravery tests" to train them to be ruthless killers.
As the rest of the article points out, these are training methods if you want to train a bunch of sociopaths to kill women and children. I wonder what the crime rate is for those who've gone through this program.
Isn't attacking a defenseless dog who's tied between poles just about the opposite of bravery? A real test of bravery might involve, say, taking on an unfettered mountain lion or bear or whatever the local equivalent is.
Here's a real test of bravery.
Miscellania · Thu, 12/19/2002 - 22:17 · Importance: 1
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