Judge Sisamnes Skinned Alive

ezeemmanuel (57)in Speak Peace • 2 years ago

A 16th century painting showing the skinning alive of a corrupt judge, Sisamnes, in the year 500BC.
Sisamnes was a corrupt royal judge at the time of Cambyses ll in Persia.

It was discovered that he took a bribe in court and passed an unfair judgement. As a consequence the king ordered that he be arrested for his corruption and ordered that he be skinned alive. Before passing judgement the king asked Sisamnes who he wished to nominate as his successor. Sisamnes, in his greed, chose his son, Otanes.

The king agreed and appointed Otanes to replace his father. He subsequently passed judgement and ordered that Sisamnes removed skin should be used to upholster the seat on which the new judge would sit in court to remind him of the potential consequences of corruption.

Otanes, in his deliberations, was forced to always remember that he was always sitting on the skin of his executed father. This helped to ensure fairness and equity in all his hearings, deliberations and sentences.

#hivenaija #nigeria #society #africa #news #world

2 years ago in Speak Peace by ezeemmanuel (57)

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deraaa (70) 2 years ago

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ezeemmanuel (57) 2 years ago

Thank you very much... I will do that soon

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goldgrifin007 (59) 2 years ago

😱

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ezeemmanuel (57) 2 years ago

Hahaha,are you surprised?

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goldgrifin007 (59) 2 years ago

I was a little surprised that my good brother @ezeemmanuel wrote such an article.
However, there were many more shocking things than that!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State_propaganda_war

The Congo Free State propaganda war was a worldwide media propaganda campaign waged by both King Leopold II of Belgium and the critics of the Congo Free State. Leopold was very astute in using the media to support his virtual private control of the Congo. British campaigner Edmund Dene Morel successfully campaigned against Leopold and focused public attention on the violence of Leopold's rule. Morel used newspaper accounts, pamphlets, and books to publish evidence from reports, eye-witness testimony, and pictures from missionaries and others involved directly in the Congo. As Morel gained high-profile supporters, the publicity generated by his campaign eventually forced Leopold to relinquish control of the Congo to the Belgian government.

King Leopold II of Belgium was a figure called Satan.😨
It is even more shocking that a Belgian who was a Catholic committed such a demonic act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_State

All blacks saw this man as the devil of the Equator ... From all the bodies killed in the field, you had to cut off the hands. He wanted to see the number of hands cut off by each soldier, who had to bring them in baskets ... A village which refused to provide rubber would be completely swept clean. As a young man, I saw [Fiévez's] soldier Molili, then guarding the village of Boyeka, take a net, put ten arrested natives in it, attach big stones to the net, and make it tumble into the river ... Rubber causes these torments; that's why we no longer want to hear its name spoken. Soldiers made young men kill or rape their own mothers and sisters.[34]

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ezeemmanuel (57) 2 years ago

I will be writing on this after my exams soon

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goldgrifin007 (59) 2 years ago

That is good!

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drstrings (58) 2 years ago

Well this is nightmare-worthy! 😬