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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet
"But Col Richard Kemp, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan who served 8 tours in Northern Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s, said the arrest was “yet another example of this Government allowing British soldiers to be hounded through the courts”.
He said there had been “some very serious wrong doing on behalf of the British Army on Bloody Sunday, but also there was some pretty significant mitigation from the circumstances that they were operating under and direct provocation.”
He said blame should not only be directed at soldiers.
He said: “The spotlight, if anywhere, should fall upon the commanders, not just soldiers, and that includes some very, very senior officers.”
If the Government had released terrorists under the Good Friday peace agreement, then soldiers should not be prosecuted.
He said: “The Government has turned a blind eye to crimes that have been committed and allowed people who have been terrorist commanders to bet into positions of political power.
“If that has been right for the peace process, then it's not right in my view that soldiers should be hounded this way.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...shootings.html |
With justifying anything that happened on Bloody Sunday, I agree with this.
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