Happens during war. Some are successful in hiding the truth and atrocities others get caught. Of course the pious sitting behind their desks come out in droves shaking their heads in disgust.
Some like the Dutch still have their heads in the sand over thier own nations violent history.
Jop Hueting, perhaps the most famous Dutch soldier of the Indonesian war, who was decorated for the bravery he displayed in an airborne assault on Jakarta, has compared some of the massacres he witnessed to the My Lai incident during the Vietnam War. Mr Hueting, who was also in court as a possible witness for the defence, says the comparison between the Nazi SS and the Dutch forces is appropriate, because 'it is a metaphor for unbelievably violent behaviour by our forces'.
Other nations get involved with torture and brutality too.
The Petrozavodsk resident Novikov, who testified before the Investigation Committee witnessed how, in Camp No. 2 the Finns selected 30 inmates, allegedly war prisoners. They drove them to Loe Tolstoy Street and subjected them there to excruciating torture. They burned the heels of the "prisoners" with a red-hot iron, beat them with rubber clubs and then shot 15 of them. The remaining 15 persons were sent back to Camp No. 2 after 25 days.
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U.S. Marines in Afganistan, most likely engaged the enemy on in a battle. The enemy was overcome by superior forces and killed. The dead know one thing and that is they're dead. Marines know something too about nature and that is, when ya gotta go ya gotta go.
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