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Post by Frenchie on Apr 24, 2009 12:33:22 GMT 1
Five British paratroopers appeared in a military court on Thursday accused of indecently assaulting a 19-year-old soldier while on duty in Afghanistan in 2006 because they thought he was a coward. The soldier, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was said to have been stripped naked, handcuffed, held down and then indecently assaulted while other soldiers looked on, a court martial in Colchester, Essex heard. The five soldiers on trial from the army's 3 Battalion Parachute Regiment all deny "disgraceful conduct of an indecent kind," the Press Association reported. Full Story >>This type of treatment by a soldiers own peers has gone on long enough in the British Army. Having been witness to a couple of 'Regy baths' and other 'punishments meted out by squaddies I can agree that it is totally out of order. It has to stop. Ed
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