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Re: Iraqi PoW 'torture' pictures
1. I'd assume the British military justice system would be adequate to handle it. Particularly for commanders, "war crimes" would be problematic to prosecute unless you could show that commanders knew of, or else ordered such practices. Negligence wouldn't be prosecutable, unless it was to a degree tantamount to knowing and doing nothing.
2. Since the descriptions appear to be along the lines of buggery, etc., this was probably done pretty surreptitiously in the field, but filming it and having it developed is pretty stupid.
3. See above. Buggery and such isn't the normal mode of mistreating POW's.
[SIZE=1] Originally posted by OneFootInTheGrave
Well there a few issues here:
1. Should these guys and their commanders go to Hague?
2. This must have been a true idiot when he went to develop the pictures in a "high street shop"!!! so he got caught - where were the normal people responsible for reporting abuse.
3. How many more? are these the only ones? how responsible is the command structure to report abuse of POW's etc.
Well there a few issues here:
1. Should these guys and their commanders go to Hague?
2. This must have been a true idiot when he went to develop the pictures in a "high street shop"!!! so he got caught - where were the normal people responsible for reporting abuse.
3. How many more? are these the only ones? how responsible is the command structure to report abuse of POW's etc.
2. Since the descriptions appear to be along the lines of buggery, etc., this was probably done pretty surreptitiously in the field, but filming it and having it developed is pretty stupid.
3. See above. Buggery and such isn't the normal mode of mistreating POW's.
Arrian
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