"A preliminary hearing has begun for US soldier Sgt Robert Bales who is charged with killing 16 villagers, mostly women and children, in Afghanistan. Sgt Bales is accused of walking off his base in Kandahar province during the night of 11 March and firing on civilians in their homes. The massacre caused widespread anger in Afghanistan and added further strain to already difficult US-Afghan relations. The court was then shown surveillance footage shot at the army camp on the night of the massacre. In the video, soldiers confront a figure – identified by the prosecution as Sgt Bales – and ask him to drop his weapons before taking him into custody. The accused is alleged to have been armed with a rifle, pistol and grenade launcher during the killings."
Here we have an US soldier commitinig crime, murder of inocent poeple. The worst thing here it say that he killed 16 people with the majority of them being women and children. Sgt Robert Bates not only killing innocent people, but innocent children i think is the most disturbing of the news. This crime was committed against the people we are in war with. Although we are at war with Afghanistan, there is a limit, and rules to war im sure. Obviously it is for Sgt Bates to be on trial for what he did, the crime that he committed. The muder he committed not legit with the rules of the "war game." It could be assumed to have been an accident what he did, i some way, maybe, but the article says that he got up in the middle of the night and began to shoot up two villages. Now because of this crime he commited for whatever reason being, he will be punished and away from his family even longer then he would have been being at war. He has im sure surprised his wife, and two children, if they are older enough to understand.
http://dominicavibes.dm/news/us-soldier-robert-bales-in-court-over-afghan-massacre#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=us-soldier-robert-bales-in-court-over-afghan-massacre
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