Yea I absolutely agree with this, looking at what was added my thought on their plan was, 'WTF this is bullshit' because it should have 100% not worked. The notion that his wife leaving would silence him is ridiculous, unless he was threaten to silence, if he was sent a message saying you either shut up or your wife and child die, it would have quite possibly worked and been SO MUCH SIMPLER, but only so far as both are left unharmed. What happened instead in the story is absolutely non-sense. Without that pressure what should have happened is the EXACT other way around, it would have made him believed he had nothing left to lose anymore so he would have magnified the attempts to speak out, not silence himself up, Hell it should have quite possibly led him to suicide, the entire plan is one pure pile of shite.
Also did they not think about the long term effects of their plan? Let's say it works as they expect, what happen afterward? When he is out, what stop him from going to a journalist and spill everything? Again without his wife and child around it would have led him if anything to feel like he had nothing to live for except vengeance, they should have made sure if anything they came back to him the moment he was out otherwise it might just drive him to possibly take a path for FAR worst, killing the husband of his wife if found, turning traitor to his country, leaving and disappearing in some other foreign country, quite possibly along with that finding a foreign journalist and spilling the beans about all his country's dirt to the public anyway. The only way to keep him at that point from exploding is to give him some form of either retribution or compensation, but he got absolutely none, he still had lost everything that mattered, by all logic he should have exploded and done something extreme.
He ultimately is completely entitled to his fury all things considered, Hell it should been worst since their plan basically led to his wife's death. A little something he seem to have not thought about, if anything now he should forsworn his entire family else than his daughter, because their plan not only ruined his life, even if it kept him alive, but it also led to the death of his wife. The notion that everyone else that learn of the betrayal by his family is seemingly taking the side of his family rather than him is non-sense, they should understand he is the victim in this affair, not the guilty party.
Oh and seriously the whole thing about how much his father sacrificed is a farce, 'oh he quit the army so you could stay in a lesser prison' seriously? So what? He spent years in prison, also he was army, I consider that to be nearly worst than prison to begin with anyway, also he would have been in a military prison, and I think military prisons are one size fit all, they don't have a 'minimum security' and 'maximum security' version of military prisons, I believe they tend to make them all with the notion those are very dangerous individuals, you know, being trained killers and all, so the whole thing about him being left in a lesser prison over his father's sacrifice is ridiculous, their wouldn't have been a 'worst' prison for him to be sent at.