only 80? get on Australias level Britan, we generated a world wide walkie talkie shortage because throwing one on an executed civillian means he was considered an enemy combatant. Could have been calling in reinforcements and all that jazz.
But seriously these war criminals need to be held accountable on all sides and at all levels of command.
Well, at least the right people got punished. I’m talking about the whistleblower of course.
I hope so too, but for decades, the British government has done its utmost to prevent members of the military from being prosecuted for killing civilians in Northern Ireland, so I am not holding my breath.
Sadly unsurprising. Special forces operated at the time with almost no oversight and cultivated extremely toxic internal cultures. I mean, they do now too, but even worse back in the early 2010s.
You gotta be a particular kind of person to be able to pull the trigger while aiming at a kid.
Deep-rooted racism and dehumanizing a group of people certainly “helped”.
Stanley Milgrim disagrees, and it’s a really important lesson in better understanding humanity! And how humans are obedient to authority.
Anyone is capable of pulling that trigger. The common denominator is simply obedience to authority.
I think I recall a small scandal because the U.S. considered basically every male in Afghanistan over 16 to be an enemy combatant. I forget the exact details but I remember criticism for undercounting civilian deaths by getting extremely loose with the definitions.
After stories if the other SAS units, it was only time until the UK also ended up in the news.
