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//which bit of the Second World War will they be investigating next. //

Just the parts that had British troops murdering innocent Japanese, or German bystanders. Next stop the Battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar. All that deliberate targeting of French peasants going about their lawful (or awful) business.
It's PC gone mad.Just been checking how I spent my nine years i the army.
The battle of Agincourt is long overdue for investigation. A British atrocity.
I don't think we covered ourselves in glory during the crusades.
people do forget Henry V having prisoners murdered at Agincourt.
Absolutely shameful. An instant attack of imaginary amnesia is called for - but shouldn't be necessary. A metaphorical swift, well-aimed boot up the behind would be more appropriate. This makes me sick.
makes the legal eagle ambulance chasers happy.. i wonder how many
dictator henchmen now live in the uk, let alone jihadists on tax payer benefits, ahh.. i hear better the devil you know, jailed deported or hung would be better.
And how many Cypriots will be charged for damage to military equipment and injury to soldiers ?
// I don't think we covered ourselves in glory during the crusades.//
Saladin was quick to point out that the christians inc RIchard I has massacred prisoner and HE had not

2nd world war - flattening of Japan by Bombs AWAY - Curtis E Lemay. 20 sq mi of Tokyo was flattened in Mar 1945 - and then again in Aug ( same 20 sq mi ) when they didnt surrender fast enough

Unrestricted aerial bombing was a war crime - Goering was indicted for it and it was er withdrawn when Georing pleaded "ah well the allies did that as well"

Return of the Cossacks to gulag and death ( proprietor one Josef Stalin) Aug 1945 but the British according to the terms of the treaty at Yalta
( they does anyone remember when I first mentioned the betrayal of Yalta and all the old soldiers spluttered - "what dat den?" and foo! dat not in MY history book!
it was airbrushed away
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalta_Conference

o and font forget - yalta wot dat den ? Malta wivva 'Y' - dat it?

Mau Mau
The allegations, according to the link, are that British soldiers were involved in rape and torture. Unlike the crusades, this event is within living memory. I don't see why they shouldn't investigate.

Of course, the downside is that if this is true it isn't obvious what can actually be done to the perpetrators other than ensure they get a reputation as rapists and torturers. Hopefully in future when our soldiers are accused of such things we'll be more rigorous about investigating rather than leaving it for 60+ years.

//Just been checking how I spent my nine years i the army.//

If you didn't rape or torture anyone I think you'll be fine.
Perhaps there should be an international statute of limitations on such things, it would give enough time for people to come forward, while there was still chance of collecting evidence. Maybe ten years from then end of hostilities.
cdc be covered by a treaty
hey rowan really thoughtful post ....
the treaty of Vereniging 1902 which ended the Boer War
( bad feeling on both sides ) see Breaker Morrant
where it specifically said - no war crimes trials !! except on those already raised ....
Should there be a timeframe on hunting down war criminals?
and I know the Beast of Minden 1918 famously escaped justice. But were war crimes trials held after the first world war
yes actually
those named ... in the treaty of Versailles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_prisoners_of_war_in_Germany#Leipzig_trials

not a raging success.

But then Erzberger was dead bv 1921

sorry I only put that in to elicit the usual chorus of
"who Erzberger den?" and " Erzberger where dat when he's at home?" and so on, that I know Abers love generating automatically
war crimes stat linited
nope - that is why Simon Wiesenfeld and Klara Beate Y) could keep up Nazi hunting until their own deaths in the seventies

By the sixties - my dear Dad ( POW) said - "I know what was said to me but not where and when" - let alone by whom

In the trial of Ivan ( Jan ) Demjanjuk was identified by a witness X as Ivan the Terrible - "I wd remember him anywhere, eyes of a child meurderer" etc
and then X ( and the court ) was shown film of X in 1946 saying he had killed Ivan the Terrible wizz his bare hands the day after the war ended. X was unrepentant
Henry VI, Part 2 act 4, sc. 2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_kill_all_the_lawyers

That quote has now been given a positive twist by, you guessed it, lawyers.
The ultimate slime.

There is another thread on Corbo and hsi mouth
and Dachau came up
golly didnt they have fun in April 1945 !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_liberation_reprisals

and there is a link to - - - allied war crimes - -- - - cripes!
" I don't see why they shouldn't investigate. "

Because this is clearly compensation orientated, why wait until most of the alleged perpetrators are dead? Well because that way they cannot defend themselves and it is easier to get compo.

This should be kicked into the long grass now it is an absolute disgrace. It's too late, all concentrations should be on current situations.

"If you didn't rape or torture anyone I think you'll be fine."

Well I would not put money on that. You dont have to be guilty to be accused as we have seen many times recently.
When is Bliars hearing BTW?

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