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Originally posted by Tim Hancock
blanket parties

That's so gay.

http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_crime&Number=294373950
Private loses legs, genitals after brutal blanket party

January 28, 2006

HE begged his family to take him home for the New Year holiday. But the military base was too remote, the weather too harsh.

'What shall I do here?' he cried to his sister down the crackling phone line. 'I am sick of looking at these drunken bastards.'

On New Year's Eve, 18-year-old serviceman Andrei Sychev's worst fears about what his bored, drunk campmates were capable of came true.

He was subjected to an assault so savage that it beggars belief.

Private Sychev was beaten, tortured and raped for hours, and then left lying unattended and in agony for days before being belatedly taken to hospital.

By then, his injuries were so severe that his legs and genitals had to be amputated.

Now, he is fighting for his life in hospital. Pte Sychev was set upon on New Year's Eve at the remote Chelyabinsk Tank Academy in the Ural Mountains about 1,900km east of Moscow.

Older soldiers forced him to spend hours in an awkward crouched position and then brutally beat him, according to Russian newspaper reports.

The daily Vremya Novostei newspaper quoted an unidentified military officer as saying that Pte Sychev had also been raped for several hours.

By the time he was taken to hospital days later, he was unable to speak or stand.

Military prosecutors are probing why the doctors at the academy did not treat him at the scene.

They said that at least seven other conscripts were beaten in the same incident, but sustained less serious injuries.

Compounding the anguish for Pte Sychev's family, they were informed of the incident only after he had undergone his first amputation.

'Why didn't anyone tell me, 'Come here, your son is in grave condition?' ' asked a sobbing Mrs Galina Sychev on Russian television.

She said that her critically ill son had scribbled the name of his cruelest tormentor on a piece of paper.

Eight servicemen, including several officers, have been detained at the academy over the incident, according to media reports.

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov vowed to punish the culprits.

'We won't cover anything or anyone up,' he said yesterday.

But rights groups are unconvinced.

'As long as officers don't regard conscripts as humans and their lives, health and dignity aren't worth anything to them, such things will continue,' Madam Valentina Melnikova, leader of the Union of Committees of Soldiers' Mothers, said on Russian radio. - AP.