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South Koreans faced a different kind of revenge this week when more than 150 white balloons They are said to have been brought across the border from North Korea, attached to bags of garbage and feces.
It came after North Korea’s Vice Defense Minister Kim Kang-il warned that Pyongyang would retaliate in response to anti-North Korean leaflets flown across the border in the opposite direction.
It is not the first time that feces have been used in conflicts or protest actions.
Scythian arrows
The use of feces in warfare is believed to date back to fifth century BC. The Scythians, who lived in an area stretching across central Asia, used arrows dipped in a poison made from a mixture of snake venom, human blood, and dung or human excrement.
Poison entering a puncture wound would likely cause shock or gangrene.
Chicken poop prison
Khuk Khi Kai, also known as the Chicken Poo Prison, was built by The French occupiers in Thailand in 1893 to imprison Thai resistance fighters.
Only 4.4 meters wide and 7 meters high, the prison was covered with a chicken coop from which manure fell onto the prisoners below.
The Viet Cong’s punji sticks
Punji sticks were a type of trap used by the Viet Cong during the Vietnam war. Often made of sharpened wood or bamboo and sometimes coated with animal poison, plant poison, or excrement, the sticks were hidden and sometimes placed in pits in areas likely to be crossed by enemy troops or in preparation for an ambush.
Most soldiers wounded by punji sticks were protected from battle for about the same amount of time as soldiers recovering from minor gunshot wounds.
Russian patent for waste disposal weapon
In 2009, a rather a creative invention for soldiers to dispose of their waste while sealed inside vehicles during combat, a patent was issued in Russia.
The idea involved packing waste with explosives into artillery shells. “The gun, loaded with a special projectile, is aimed at a safe area or at any enemy target,” the patent states.
Cape Town’s 2013 ‘Poop Wars’
Not quite a war, as the name suggests, but a protest. In 2013, residents of Cape Town, South Africa, protested against the local government for not doing enough to provide adequate municipal sanitation. The authorities had provided portable toilets instead of permanent flushable ones. Protesters decided to use human waste from toilets to make their point, in an act that said one researcher “literally brought the smell from the slums to the centers of political and economic power in Cape Town”.
Protesters threw bags of rubbish at government offices and filth was thrown at then opposition leader Helen Zille. Protesters also dumped buckets of human waste at Cape Town International Airport.
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