How to Carry Out a Successful Massacre
by Alaa El Aswany
It’s not easy to do because a successful massacre requires preparation, experience and systematic implementation. A massacre is rather like a surgical operation, the success of which depends on the skill of the surgeon, the accuracy of his diagnosis and his ability to use his fingers correctly and effectively. Here are the steps necessary for carrying out a successful massacre:
First, understand what massacre means. What’s the difference between controlling a demonstration and carrying out a massacre? In the first case you send your forces in to control the demonstration in full view of everyone, whereas a massacre is a special and exceptional operation, a specific message aimed at a particular group of people. A massacres targets a specific group such as football fans, Islamists or socialists rather than people in general, so it has to be planned so that public opinion doesn’t sympathize with the victims. In their attitude toward the massacre, people must fall into two categories: one group doubts it happened in the first place, while the other group admits that some excesses took place but say the victims were responsible for what happened to them. A successful massacre goes something like this:
You meet your rival in a crowded place and you smile at him as if he’s an old friend, then you go up to him and whisper some outrageous insult in his ear so that no one else can hear. Your rival will then flip out and try to attack you in response to the insult that no one else heard. Those present will all intervene to defend you because they don’t think you committed any offence that would justify such an attack.
Second: define your objective carefully. The objective of any massacre can be summed up in three words: breaking their will. You need to terrify the rebels until they realize that rebellion bears a heavy price, so they give in and become obedient. At particular moments planning massacres is essential. When revolution breaks out and the people are taking part in it, it’s not possible to crush millions of people, so the rebels have to be divided into groups and a massacre has to be organized for each separate group so that in the end you break the will of the people as a whole. Another example … before rigging elections it’s useful to carry out a massacre against politically active elements, those who will go out in the streets to demonstrate and stage sit-ins in protest at the rigged election results. They have to be intimidated, dragged along the ground and killed early. After that, if the elections are rigged, you won’t find anyone standing in your way. You’ll be surprised at the result, because a successful massacre can have a magical effect. Even the toughest and bravest rebels, when they are abused and humiliated, when they see their colleagues killed before their eyes, might lose their courage and turn into frightened and submissive citizens.
Third: be careful. Your troops shouldn’t carry out the massacre in uniform. That would cause problems. There’s nothing worse than a picture of a soldier in uniform killing or beating his fellow citizens. Do what you want without showing your face in the picture. The people who carry out the massacre must wear civilian clothes. Whether they are your soldiers or hired hands, the result is all the same. There will be hundreds of unidentified people attacking the demonstrators to beat them up, drag them along the ground, kill them and molest the women. After that who would dare accuse you of planning the massacre? It will look like a skirmish between two unidentified groups. It’s best to have your soldiers appear on camera and act as if they are trying to break up the skirmish and save the victims.
Fourth: set up public opinion to accept the massacre. This is an important step. You have to prepare people by inventing crises before the massacre – a complete breakdown in law and order, shortages of fuel and foodstuffs, drastic price rises that make it impossible for people to live. People who are worn out and frightened will be more receptive to the massacre than people who are at ease and investigate the truth about events. Your soldiers in preparing public opinion are the dozens of journalists who work for security in return for money and jobs they obtain from you and who have no scruples about doing anything to please you. They have a whole rangerof effective methods, from staged phone calls from viewers, letters from fake readers, inventing incidents and bringing in strategic experts who repeat falsehoods with
