Two British soldiers fighting in Afghanistan were arrested on charges of sexually abusing two Afghan children as young as ten years old and filming the abuse.
The films, which were showed off to comrades, reportedly depict the two soldiers as they encouraged a young Afghan boy and girl to touch them through their clothing. The British army would not release information on the names of the soldiers or their unit, but the Ministry of Defense said it took such claims “seriously” and the Royal Military Police said they were investigating.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s office said: “The government of Afghanistan is immensely disgusted by the rise in recent incidents of immoral nature among foreign soldiers that clearly undermine public confidence and the Afghan people’s cooperation with foreign troops.”
The arrests have been made less than a week after an internet video surfaced of U.S. Marines urinating on dead Afghan bodies, an incident which the U.S. authorities also claimed it to be investigating. Local Afghans were quoted as saying “such things happen all the time, and people talk about it but media hardly report them.”
The public outrage in the West is of course negligible compared to what it would be if Taliban fighters were recorded pissing on the corpses of U.S. Marines or sexually assaulting American or British children. Nevertheless, the current counter-insurgency strategy in Afghanistan is supposedly about “winning hearts and minds.”
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British soldiers arrested on charges of child abuse
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What always gets me is..
What possesses them to film it?
What possesses them to film it?
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This is the sort of shit members of the Taliban did/probably still do... 
Disgusting behavior.
Disgusting behavior.
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Re: British soldiers arrested on charges of child abuse
by Phadunkin Donuts Fri Jan 20, 2012 7:30 am
What are we even fighting for..
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Why do stuff like that?
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Phadunkin Donuts wrote:
What are we even fighting for..
Money.
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Re: British soldiers arrested on charges of child abuse
by Childish Logic Fri Jan 20, 2012 7:36 am
ahlycotc wrote:Phadunkin Donuts wrote:
What are we even fighting for..
Money.
Money,power and sex apparently.
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The article mentioned that if it was taliban then people would be more outraged, shouldn't type that sort of shit in the article. It undermines the article but regardless i'm disgusted stuff like this still happen
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NZG wrote:ahlycotc wrote:
Money.
Money,power and sex apparently.
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The article mentioned that if it was taliban then people would be more outraged, shouldn't type that sort of shit in the article. It undermines the article but regardless i'm disgusted stuff like this still happen
What's it's saying is that people would be more outraged and emotional if the Taliban had done something like that. It's showing how biased the West is.
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This. It's a brave statement to make, however, generally speaking, it is an extremely accurate statement.ahlycotc wrote:NZG wrote:
Money,power and sex apparently.
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The article mentioned that if it was taliban then people would be more outraged, shouldn't type that sort of shit in the article. It undermines the article but regardless i'm disgusted stuff like this still happen,
What's it's saying is that people would be more outraged and emotional if the Taliban had done something like that. It's showing how biased the West is.
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