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US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis visited Indonesia on Tuesday to repair ties with the country’s special forces, which committed gross human-rights violations under former Indonesian President Muhammad Suharto.
Mattis was expecting to watch the Indonesian special forces, known as Kopassus, perform a hostage rescue drill — but instead saw them walk on fire, drink snake blood, roll in glass, and more.
Mattis seemed to enjoy the demonstration.
“The snakes! Did you see them tire them out and then grab them? The way they were whipping them around – a snake gets tired very quickly,” Mattis later told reporters, according to Reuters.
Here’s what the Indonesian special forces do:
Mattis visited Indonesia to repair ties with the country’s military, and expected to just observe a hostage rescue demonstration. But he soon found out that that wasn’t the only thing they had in store for him.
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Source: Business Insider
The Indonesian special forces, or Kopassus, unsacked snakes and begin whipping them around to tire them out.
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The soldiers bit them in half and drank their blood.
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