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la_vie_noire in ontd_political

So I hate the world

Dec 04, 2011 00:53

British soldier jailed for stabbing 10-year-old Afghan boy

Grenadier Guardsman Daniel Crook was jailed for 18 months and dismissed from the Army in June for stabbing Ghulam Nabi in the kidney with a bayonet in Helmand Province.

( Cut for descriptions of violence against a child )

afghanistan, war, guns, child abuse / csa, fuckery, nato, *trigger warning: abuse, army, children

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koken23 December 4 2011, 04:05:32 UTC

Oh goddamn it. Getting drunk before patrol does not help you make appropriate choices...and just a tip, stabbing someone because they've asked you for chocolate?

NEVER an appropriate choice, soldier.

I'm curious as to whether he asked for the vodka to be sent to him, or if his friend just did it, and if so...how? They usually run quite strict searches of mail before distributing it, and vodka is NOT on the green light list!

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romp December 4 2011, 06:20:32 UTC

because the kid didn't die?

mdemvizi December 4 2011, 04:36:00 UTC

Hate this.

I already told my brother if anything like this happens while he is deployed I will punch him in the face. I am so questioning the vodka thing. They have such strict rules about what to send and how it should be sent. Whenever stuff goes to my brother it is dropped from a helicopter into a field somewhere but he is really out there. Blargh.

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suzycat December 4 2011, 05:44:07 UTC

They have pretty shitty lives to look forward to, most of them, a bit of chocolate goes a long way.

suzycat December 4 2011, 05:42:50 UTC

My friend's ex was Afghan and he said alcohol was most definitely available in Kabul, provided by/for the US troops and consumed with excessive gusto by local men. So it's possible the vodka was made or sourced in Kabul (I think Helmand is pretty conservative and fraught and less likely to be a place of booze) and sent down there.

It sounds like the soldier just lost it in the way that soldiers in horrific situations do, but DAMN he was just a little boy! I presume he didn't die, otherwise the sentence would have to be much longer...

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cyranothe2nd December 4 2011, 04:54:05 UTC

Only 18 months? O_o

captain_emily December 4 2011, 05:00:37 UTC

18 months seems like a very short sentence for blatant assault. If he had been back home and stabbed a fellow Brit, would an 18 months be a standard sentence?

Also, why hasn't anyone helped the kid that was stabbed? At least get him some all-expenses paid medical attention.

dreammeanyway December 4 2011, 06:11:54 UTC

Hopefully they did get him care...