Prisoners of war in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971

Enemies being killed and roasted in South America – engraving by Theodor de Bry (1592)

01Caesar's soldiers killed roughly 10,000 Pompeians and captured 15,000 at Thapsus; the lopsided toll suggests a rout, not a battle.
02Ancient sources including Plutarch record Caesar falling into a seizure at the onset, carried to a nearby tower to recover while his army fought without him.
03After the battle, Caesar's own veterans executed several surrendered enemy officers on the spot — Caesar was reportedly unable to stop them.

A mangle being used in a domestic science course during World War II

Pakistan publicly claimed its 93,000 captured soldiers in Indian camps were 'volunteers' — a fiction sustained for two years while the men waited. Bhutto finally negotiated their return by conceding terms he publicly denied ever signing.