Definite patterns emerge from an analysis of the allegations which follows in detail.
In each case the initial arrest was made by army personnel. On the majority of cases involving persons released within 48 hours of arrest, allegations were limited to assertions of severe beatings usually about the head and shoulders with truncheons. Other common allegations concern brutalities, such as being made to run barefoot for several hundred yards over stony ground strewn with broken glass, rough boards and other debris Indignities were also commonly alleged, including verbal abuse ridiculing the presumed religious beliefs of the persons in custody. But on selected testimonials the pattern alters radically. When they would collapse, severe beatings were again administered.