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Jump To Comment: 6 5 4 3 2 1An article in today's London Independent about the testimony from Israel's Shovrim Shtika group . The report details the horrific IDF treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron. Shovrim Shtika - Breaking the Silence- is an Israeli NGO consisting of serving Israeli soldiers and veterans which gathers and collates evidence of IDF maltreatment of Palestinians .
"We were right next to this, but did nothing. We were indifferent, you know. OK. Only after the fact you start thinking. Not right away. We were doing such things every day ... It had become a habit..."
http://www.independent.co.uk/
All these war atrocity stories bear out the moral that war brings out the savage beast in men. That is all the more reason for people to campaign against war and to work for equitable trading relations between nations. Third world development is another name for peace.
Here is an account of an atrocity perpetrated against Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in Colorado in November 1864-
"Chivington himself appeared at a Denver theater several days later, toting a chain of 100 scalps and the genitalia a Cheyenne woman. Some reports suggested that Chivington also brought a fetus"
http://axisofevelknievel.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_archiv....html
During the Pacific War, U.S. Marines used to behead the dead bodies of Japanese soldiers, boil the flesh off them and use the skulls as unit mascots while others collected ears and strung them together on boot laces.
In Europe, GI's collected watches, money, belt buckles, Lugers, steel helmets, war ribbons and Hitler youth daggers from dead Krauts.
Reminds of the scene in Saving Private Ryan when the Americans have overcome the beach defences and two Germans come out of their trenches with their hands up trying to surrender and two GI's pretend they don't understand and shoot them down.
If I was in the same position after witnessing my buddies shot to pieces I would be in a blind rage and I would feel cheated when that the enemy could escape his just deserts by putting up his hands.
I remember reading that British and German soldiers often took no prisoners because enemy who were captured would get out of the rat infested misery of the trenches and enjoy the softer conditions in the prisoner of war camps.
If their friends and comrades had died soldiers wanted to inflict their own personal vengence on the enemy and the bleeding hearts back home could stuff the Geneva conventions.
Officers encourage this practice for two important reasons 1. If men are more willing to kill they will fight better 2. Too many POW's means that personnel must be diverted from the frontline to look after them.
In book Band of Brothers, Major Winters and his men killed or captured a company of German SS.
A group of about a dozen or so were being led away by a private who had a reputation for being trigger happy.
Winters took him aside, confiscated his ammo and grenades and left him with a single bullet in his rifle.
He also made sure that the rear commander told him if the prisoners arrived and how many they were.
That if the private shot a prisoner he would be jumped by the others.
Boys will be boys.
"Such behaviour is nothing new in war"
It could be suggested that they were "only following orders", but surely then the political leaders who give the orders and send people out to kill and be killed have a lot to answer for. The issue surely is whether war itself is acceptable or not.