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Why do troops shoot prisoners?

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Friday April 18, 2008 15:30author by Kurt Jurgens Report this post to the editors

A revealing incident from WW2

Today we witness the international media reporting on the fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.
Few of the journalists have ever served in the military and few of them can understand the overwhelming fear, terror and daily brutality that turns men into merciless killers.

In our nice sanitised view of war, soldier kill other soldiers and do not gun down prisoners with their hands up.

The intensely savage battle for Fallujah, an American soldier was filmed shooting an apparently unarmed and wounded insurgent.
In Haditha, a squad of American soldiers ran amok and cut down men women and children with automatic weapons and grenades.

Such behaviour is nothing new in war.
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The following is an account of the notorious "Malmedy Massacre", an incident when unarmed American prisoners were gunned down by German troops during WW2.

It reveals the huge stress than men endure during combat that produces acts that are incomprehensible to civilians who have no experience of combat.

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Related Link: http://30thinfantry.org/malmedy.shtml

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   Excuses, excuses     ya wha?    Fri Apr 18, 2008 17:24 
   Very interesting     Kim    Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:06 
   We know this already     Semper Fi    Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:16 
   Gory events at Sand Creek     1864    Sat Apr 19, 2008 13:57 
   the beast within     Benjy    Sat Apr 19, 2008 14:18 
   "losing the human condition" in Hebron.     tomeile    Sat Apr 19, 2008 14:52 


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