Tsehay Tolessa, Ethiopia, 1980's "They forced my hands under my knees and tied them there. Then they put a stick through these ropes and hung me upside down. They filled my mouth with dirty rags. I almost suffocated. They beat me, breaking my bones. Great pieces of skin hung from my body. "Then they freed me from bonds and forced me to run with bleeding feet over a path with sharp stones." "Next they put me in a small cell containing 62 people. There was no room to stand. Stand on what? On bleeding feet, on broken legs. The cell was completely dark and there was no air. Don't ask how prisioners fulfilled there bodily needs. There was only one hole serving as a toilet, but no one could get to it. "All had to stand pressed against each other to give a few the opportunity to sleep a bit lying on one side. Because os the limited space, no turning was possible." Her cuts bled, but there was no medicine. Tsehay could not even hold a cup, so others had to help her drink. Tsehay was tortured by the Ethiopian Communists for her faith in Jesus Christ. She stayed in that cell for over a year, spending a total of ten years in jail. As a result of spending such a long time in darkness, she has not regained full vision. As they tortured her, the Ethiopian Communists mocked: "Where is your loving Jesus?" But Tsehay only pitied the blindness of her torturers. She knew that her Lord was always with her, alive in her heart. "Jesus was there, in the midst of human waste, in the humiliation, in the blood and stench. He is more than a King ruling in Heavan, a Bridegroom. He is the One tortured in prison." From "Jesus freaks" by dc Talk and The Voice of the Martyrs. | 
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