The controversy was immediate. One day after the broadcast of a video in which four Marines United States urinate on the bodies of members of the Taliban, the U.S. soldiers sentences multiplied in the country and internationally.
Washington, reacted swiftly to condemn the behavior of military and called Afghan President Hamid Karzai, to apologize for what happened.
The Pentagon chief, Leon Panetta, described the video is "utterly deplorable" and said that it has opened an investigation, he said, will reach the end.
In addition, U.S. Thursday Verica confirmed the images and reported that soldiers in the video belong to the second regiment of Marines, based at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and at least two of them were identified.
So the question that arises now is what now awaits these soldiers?
"The legal accusation for desecrating corpses is already a problem for them, and dishonor a dead enemy," he told BBC World, the U.S. Army ex coronel Eric Red.
And like all Americans, regardless of military crime that occurs within or outside the country should be judged under the click Uniform Code of Military Justice (CUJM) and are subject to a court martial, he said.
"Not as a war crime but simply under the code of military justice. Everything has a limit on the battlefield and for that set rules for what we call the CUJM and international rules of war," says Red.
The U.S. reaction
According to experts, the speed with which these soldiers will be deemed part of the U.S. strategy used to get away from a new scandal that damaged his image.
And this episode has brought to mind some of the "trophy photos" of U.S. troops to Afghan bodies or images that revealed abuses Iraqis in Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.
"Clearly this is an embarrassment for a government that is committed to reflecting a more sensitive U.S. military power also when you are released is problematic, to say the least," says journalist BBC in Washington, Steve Kingstone.
The video is broadcast at a time when the U.S. Army decided to prosecute soldiers accused of killing five Afghan civilians during their deployment there in 2010.
"The best for management is that an investigation quickly uproot the criminals. And, of course, that no other video is out there waiting to be climbed," said Kingstone.
In the past, a sergeant was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing civilians in Afghanistan and dozens of soldiers were investigated and 11 court-martial convicted for the abuses at Abu Ghraib.
Chambers, enemies and video
Although the U.S. Marine Corps said that "the actions shown are not consistent" with its "core values", the experts insist that these behavior-wrong and unjustifiable, the soldiers could be due to a "hysterical demonstration of victory in a hostile environment and facing an enemy that despises. "
"There are poems that speak of profane or urinate a tomb for centuries," says Red. "It is not customary. Typically not. Sure, it's the thrill, the adrenaline of victory, having killed the enemy who killed your friends ... Especially in the guerrilla war that is different from the conventional."
"In these situations involve a certain emotional and intellectual level. Do not see the reality beyond that time. Fools and clear them, silly some of them decided to teach the world a 'we are victorious" in the most stupid that can do, "says the ex coronel.
And is that both this time and in the earlier accusations, technology has played a key role in the massive exposure of the scandal.
The photos are uploaded easily to social networks and YouTube videos to have allowed the images to be distributed angry reactions around the world almost immediately.
"We will speak to a human level," says Red. "Today, all appliances have bought a camera. The people who did this, at the time was not smart enough to not take a picture, not to videotape and in the worst case, not to distribute the world "yet complains that" this is not the way to claim victory. "
"The demonstrations of triumph need not reach that extreme," he concludes. by multiplenews
Washington, reacted swiftly to condemn the behavior of military and called Afghan President Hamid Karzai, to apologize for what happened.
The Pentagon chief, Leon Panetta, described the video is "utterly deplorable" and said that it has opened an investigation, he said, will reach the end.
In addition, U.S. Thursday Verica confirmed the images and reported that soldiers in the video belong to the second regiment of Marines, based at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and at least two of them were identified.
So the question that arises now is what now awaits these soldiers?
"The legal accusation for desecrating corpses is already a problem for them, and dishonor a dead enemy," he told BBC World, the U.S. Army ex coronel Eric Red.
And like all Americans, regardless of military crime that occurs within or outside the country should be judged under the click Uniform Code of Military Justice (CUJM) and are subject to a court martial, he said.
"Not as a war crime but simply under the code of military justice. Everything has a limit on the battlefield and for that set rules for what we call the CUJM and international rules of war," says Red.
The U.S. reaction
According to experts, the speed with which these soldiers will be deemed part of the U.S. strategy used to get away from a new scandal that damaged his image.
And this episode has brought to mind some of the "trophy photos" of U.S. troops to Afghan bodies or images that revealed abuses Iraqis in Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.
"Clearly this is an embarrassment for a government that is committed to reflecting a more sensitive U.S. military power also when you are released is problematic, to say the least," says journalist BBC in Washington, Steve Kingstone.
The video is broadcast at a time when the U.S. Army decided to prosecute soldiers accused of killing five Afghan civilians during their deployment there in 2010.
"The best for management is that an investigation quickly uproot the criminals. And, of course, that no other video is out there waiting to be climbed," said Kingstone.
In the past, a sergeant was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing civilians in Afghanistan and dozens of soldiers were investigated and 11 court-martial convicted for the abuses at Abu Ghraib.
Chambers, enemies and video
Although the U.S. Marine Corps said that "the actions shown are not consistent" with its "core values", the experts insist that these behavior-wrong and unjustifiable, the soldiers could be due to a "hysterical demonstration of victory in a hostile environment and facing an enemy that despises. "
"There are poems that speak of profane or urinate a tomb for centuries," says Red. "It is not customary. Typically not. Sure, it's the thrill, the adrenaline of victory, having killed the enemy who killed your friends ... Especially in the guerrilla war that is different from the conventional."
"In these situations involve a certain emotional and intellectual level. Do not see the reality beyond that time. Fools and clear them, silly some of them decided to teach the world a 'we are victorious" in the most stupid that can do, "says the ex coronel.
And is that both this time and in the earlier accusations, technology has played a key role in the massive exposure of the scandal.
The photos are uploaded easily to social networks and YouTube videos to have allowed the images to be distributed angry reactions around the world almost immediately.
"We will speak to a human level," says Red. "Today, all appliances have bought a camera. The people who did this, at the time was not smart enough to not take a picture, not to videotape and in the worst case, not to distribute the world "yet complains that" this is not the way to claim victory. "
"The demonstrations of triumph need not reach that extreme," he concludes. by multiplenews
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