[Newsbot]

Title: Don't look, don't tell, troops told
Category: Military
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2008-06-16 14:27:14
Canadian

[RUEZ]

This isn't right.

[commanderkai]

Don't soldiers in disaster zones shoot looters and such? I would feel absolutely nothing if a soldier shot a Afghan raping somebody.

[Public_Domain]

Oh wow.

That's freaking ridiculous, what the hell?

A boy being raped by an Afghan soldier?

(k seriously, Priests, Soldiers, Clowns, Teachers, Michael Jackson, everyone is after little boys these days.)

[Regina]

Shouldn't the Afghan police be handling these cases?

[CanAm1]

lily lily:

Shouldn't anyone who sees stuff like this be handling it?

Straight up Lilly. Crap like this went on in Bosnia and the First Gulf war as the Iraquis were leaving Kuwait. You have to do something you just can't stand by and watch, you will never forgive yourself. At least these people should be taken into custody to have them tried in a court.
Terrible terrible thing to ask a soldier to do.

[ridenrain]

lily lily:

Shouldn't anyone who sees stuff like this be handling it?

Like genocide in Rwanda?

[Regina]

lily lily:

Shouldn't anyone who sees stuff like this be handling it?

Absolutely but charges or punishment should be carried out by someone trained in criminal offences.

[Freakinoldguy]

These kinds of policies are bullshit. They undermine military and personal ethics and do nothing but destroy the moral of the troops.

It might be time to issue new ROE's that state, force may be used to curb or stop "ALL" cases of percieved or actual abuse by non combatants using whatever force necessary.

To bad if it offends our Afghani hosts. Our troops are there protecting the the entire population, not just a select few, so it shouldn't matter who the perpetrator is. These types of people, who prey on innocents should be dealt with summarily, or at the very least by the Afghani government in consultation with the NATO representation. If not what's the point of being there?

[fifeboy]

Regina Regina:

Shouldn't the Afghan police be handling these cases?

True, but anyone seeing it should be able to report it!

[fifeboy]

ridenrain ridenrain:

lily lily:

Shouldn't anyone who sees stuff like this be handling it?

Like genocide in Rwanda?

And your point is?