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”.
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.
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.
Well, at least the right people got punished. I’m talking about the whistleblower of course.
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.
After stories if the other SAS units, it was only time until the UK also ended up in the news.
