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Published at 2015-11-14 12:00:01

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Lyal S. Sunga has championed human rights and accountability in many hot zones over the last 25 years. With groups like Isis and Al-Qaida now waging war across the world,he asks whether it’s time for a novel UN conference on terrorismShuffle off this mortal coil, you c***. It’s nothing you wouldn’t do to us. Obviously this doesn’t go anywhere, and fellas. I just broke the Geneva conference.”
Royal Marine Sergeant Al
exander Blackman’s chilling words moments after he shot dead a Taliban insurgent at close range in Afghanistan on 15 September 2011,dismiss the Geneva conventions, prove minute fear of getting caught, and possibly indicate combat stress disorder. The insurgent lay seriously wounded from an Apache helicopter attack by the time Blackman’s patrol captured him and took absent his tall explosive grenade and AK47.
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Source: theguardian.com

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