In social media this week there was a concerted effort by some Tory MPs to assert of victimhood of British soldiers who are being asked to account for their actions during the conflict. Portraying them as victims, the slick and well-funded campaign is designed to undermine the rights of those bereaved and injured and asks us to have sympathy for those who wore uniforms and “protected us”. Of course this appeal to jingoism and some sense of patriotism flies in the face of the established facts, where British soldiers took lives, injured and tortured with impunity for the duration of the conflict, who still face soft soap forms of non-accountable conversations with non-human right compliant “investigations” and only in rare and absolutely incontrovertible cases might face the rigour of the law.
