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One of the officers shocked a few of the bodies with an electric baton to check, but none moved.
The outfit also included a plastic pistol, padded vest, toy handcuffs, a fake electric baton and a counterfeit badge.
Forced to sing songs over and over again with a parched throat in the freezing cold to entertain the guards, he is beaten with an electric baton.
"A soldier started hitting me with a baton on my knees and used an electric baton on my body," he adds.
The police later said the hostage-takers had a pistol, a device for firing tear gas or pepper spray, an electric baton and an ax.
In prison, the officers are hardly blameless — the book's title refers to an episode in which Liao is forced to sing a hundred songs as an officer prods him with an electric baton — but some of the most harrowing descriptions are of prisoners torturing one another.
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