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A Hanging | The Orwell Foundation

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"It is curious, but till that moment I had never realized what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man."

George Orwell: Burmese Days The Orwell Foundation is an independent charity. We rely on the generosity of donors, Friends and Patrons to maintain these free resources. It was in Burma, a sodden morning of the rains. A sickly light, like yellow tinfoil, was slanting over the high walls into the jail yard. We were waiting outside the condemned cells, a row of sheds fronted with double bars, like small animal cages. Each cell measured about ten feet by ten and was quite bare within except for a plank bed and a pot of drinking water. In some of them brown silent men were squatting at the inner bar

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