Here is a report by Amnesty international on caning in Malaysia which has similar rules. https://www.univie.ac.at/bimtor/dateien/malaysia_ai_2010_blow_to_humanity.pdf The mental and physical trauma is immense, people shudder at the thought of just one to a few strokes.

Here are some quotes from the people the interviewed for the report:

“The pain goes up to your head. It felt like an electric shock. I don’t have the words for it,”

“Two or three of us lost consciousness after two strokes. I was blinded by the pain.”

“When it gets beyond five, the flesh disintegrates,”

“It was the worst pain in my life. Even after my motorcycle accident I didn’t feel like that”

“The pain continued for two weeks. For even one stroke it takes two weeks,”

“If I sit down for a long time I get a burning sensation in my butt, at the

wound.”

“I still can’t sit down for a long time. I feel weak and feel pain in the wound,”

“I feel mentally unstable. Psychologically I don’t feel the same as before,”

“I feel that I am mentally destroyed, after they whipped me, I still felt that rotan. I saw only that rotan.”