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9th August 2011, 06:44
FYI:
A Scottish UK trooper has chopped off the fingers of dead Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan and kept the digits as souvenirs, a newspaper report has said.
The trooper, from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Scotland, is being investigated to shed light on the details of the brutal and inhumane incident.
The British army's top brass have been probing the claims that the trooper kept the severed fingers as “macabre” souvenirs, , the Sun newspaper reported.
"We can confirm that an incident is being investigated by the Royal Military Police (Special Investigation Branch)," the Ministry of Defence said in a statement.
"It would not be appropriate to comment further while this process is ongoing", the statement added.
"It seems he may have been chopping off the fingers of the dead Taliban fighters”, said an army source.
“There is a rumor that he may have wanted to keep them as souvenirs, which is macabre in the extreme”, the source added.
"These allegations have rocked the battalion. That said, they are being kept very hush hush for obvious reasons. Only one soldier is said to have been involved”, said the source who was familiar with the incident.
"The Afghanistan tour was his first one and it's possible that the stresses of that made him do these horrific things", said the source.
Muslims bury their dead with all their body parts and the incident, which is happening for the second time in the Muslim country, would certainly trigger a new wave of anti-western sentiments across Afghanistan.
Last year, five US troops were accused of murdering three Afghan civilians and mutilating their bodies to keep their fingers and other body parts as trophies.
Later investigations proved that the troops, in one case, chopped off a dead Afghan boy's finger and later used it as 'gambling chip' in a game of cards.
The UK troops from Argylls have been running the southern province of Helmand Police Training Center, and it has been their six months in Helmand that the abuse of corpses has happened, according to the report.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie called for urgent action to be taken over the shocking allegations.
"If these sickening acts were the result of severe military trauma, then the Army needs to act quickly to ensure that others are not suffering in this way", he said.
source
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/193006.html
A Scottish UK trooper has chopped off the fingers of dead Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan and kept the digits as souvenirs, a newspaper report has said.
The trooper, from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Scotland, is being investigated to shed light on the details of the brutal and inhumane incident.
The British army's top brass have been probing the claims that the trooper kept the severed fingers as “macabre” souvenirs, , the Sun newspaper reported.
"We can confirm that an incident is being investigated by the Royal Military Police (Special Investigation Branch)," the Ministry of Defence said in a statement.
"It would not be appropriate to comment further while this process is ongoing", the statement added.
"It seems he may have been chopping off the fingers of the dead Taliban fighters”, said an army source.
“There is a rumor that he may have wanted to keep them as souvenirs, which is macabre in the extreme”, the source added.
"These allegations have rocked the battalion. That said, they are being kept very hush hush for obvious reasons. Only one soldier is said to have been involved”, said the source who was familiar with the incident.
"The Afghanistan tour was his first one and it's possible that the stresses of that made him do these horrific things", said the source.
Muslims bury their dead with all their body parts and the incident, which is happening for the second time in the Muslim country, would certainly trigger a new wave of anti-western sentiments across Afghanistan.
Last year, five US troops were accused of murdering three Afghan civilians and mutilating their bodies to keep their fingers and other body parts as trophies.
Later investigations proved that the troops, in one case, chopped off a dead Afghan boy's finger and later used it as 'gambling chip' in a game of cards.
The UK troops from Argylls have been running the southern province of Helmand Police Training Center, and it has been their six months in Helmand that the abuse of corpses has happened, according to the report.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie called for urgent action to be taken over the shocking allegations.
"If these sickening acts were the result of severe military trauma, then the Army needs to act quickly to ensure that others are not suffering in this way", he said.
source
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/193006.html