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A CENTURY OF HATE: the soldiers, executioners and victims of war

There is only one element that unites the warring parties in (or in) the civil war iraquena: hatred for the occupying army. And in the light of facts like these is not it surprising. Sergeant Paul Cortez, 24, was sentenced to 100 years imprisonment for the rape of a 14 year old girl and the slaughter of his family, father, mother, and sister of 7 years. The confession of the sergeant made him avoid the death penalty, and obtaining, through negotiation, the possibility of parole in 10 years. The charges of murder, rape, violation of private property, criminal conspiracy, arson ... they were allocated on the basis of the March 2006, when Cortez and four other soldiers decided to attack the girl's family, chosen for the presence of one man. After the gang rape, the girl's body is burned to conceal the violence and family members killed. The other sentences already set amount to 90 years for another companion of Cortez and the radiation from the army for all participants in the massacre.

Of the many cases of gratuitous violence against the population iraquena and Afghanistan in recent years have risen to the news only more bloodshed, for the record, or perhaps more to vojeurismo news. Just think of the desecration of corpses and displays of symbols of the Third Reich by German soldiers in Iraq, or the cremation (forbidden by Islam and the Geneva Conventions) of the Taliban by the U.S. military, up to the best known cases of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. A whole constellation of human rights violations that are the results "natural" than the free zone law, and humanity, which is war. Dall'innanuralità of humanity killing itself can not follow that cases like this, where the distinction between victims and victimizers fades, becoming nothing.

Soldiers caught in situations of social and economic, in which war is the only real hope of employment, social redress, as shown symbolically M. Moore in Fahrenheit 9 / 11 : the children of some U.S. senators are not sent to the front. Soldiers, executioners and victims themselves, as shown the surge in the suicide rate of the Marines in Iraq, of mental health problems, and increasing cases of desertion.

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