Imagine this:
Some soldiers are in a cellblock, apparently via a cigarette butt; a mattress catches fire, and in the ensuing fire four soldiers suffer severe burns.
That is the official version…now; here is what the accusations are from family members, lawyers and human rights groups:
The soldiers had been punished with jail time because their sergeant discovered that they had actually signed the petition against President Hugo Chávez. The sergeant is being accused of spraying some sort of flammable liquid in the cell.
A Congressman from the Zulia legislature claims a forensic doctor that saw the soldiers told him it was impossible for the soldiers to be burned so badly accidentally. However General Wilfredo Silva (the same one that says Juan Carlos Zambrano was not tortured) said the soldiers were in the cell for an unspecified disciplinary sanction and they were smoking.
However the father of one of the soldiers, who is a fireman, says that the cell was burned on purpose, His wife says his son was the victim of constant psychological pressures.
Meanwhile, nobody knows where all the soldiers are… and the Vice-President says they did not sign.…but their lawyer says they did.
The Devil's Excrement 
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