Our soldiers must live, and die, by the principles they fight so hard to uphold
15.06.10 The Saville Inquiry into the shootings on Bloody Sunday on January 30 1972 in Londonderry will not make comfortable reading for the British Army.
The 5,000-page report was almost bound to be full of ambiguities and contradictions - witnesses to a crime or accident hardly ever agree.
Saville's conclusions may be a matter of history but the issues are very much alive today.
The abuse, torture and killing of civilians by soldiers is at the heart of the inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa in Iraq in 2003 and a string of other investigations into allegations of brutal misconduct in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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If our soldiers are put into the field and the line of fire to uphold the notions of good government and the law, they must live, and sometimes die, for those principles. Claiming that soldiers are outside the law invites disaster, as the story of Bloody Sunday proves. Continued





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