What is bamboo torture? Is this method of torture prevalent anywhere in today’s world?

What is bamboo torture? Is this method of torture prevalent anywhere in today’s world?

Bamboo torture, as the name suggests is a method of torture that involves bamboo in some way.

Before I start explaining what bamboo torture is, I should tell how a bamboo grows. A bamboo while growing is very strong and it grows several inches in a day.

So, a bamboo torture was a form of torture employed by the Japanese army during the time of World War II.

A person, generally a prisoner of war would be tied down to the ground where small buds of bamboo are growing or coming out of the ground. The bamboo would grow through the body of the prisoners and they would die a slow and agonizing death.

The sharp bamboo shoots would pierce the body of the person starting from their back and would pass through the other end slowly and painfully. So there would be multiple shoots piercing thorugh different parts of the body.

Several mythbusters have believed this torture method to be untrue and tried experimenting on a dummy (made of gelatin similar to human body). They found out that bamboo grew right through that dummy piercing through it and grew upto 10 feet.

Several mutilated bodies of prisoners of war were found in Japan which puts a light on the torture method being talked about.

It is surely the worst way to die and is the grimmest torture method.