THE GULF WAR : Law: Battlefield Crimes
Even in war there is law, and battlefield crimes will not go unpunished, the Army’s top lawyer in the Persian Gulf says. Even in the carnage of battle, THE CRIME OF MURDER can be committed. What is permissible in combat may be a war crime just off the battlefield. Army lawyers help enforce the law and will investigate any alleged war crimes committed against or by U.S. soldiers. “The case I dread is the case where U.S. soldiers are found with their hands tied behind their backs and shot in the head,†said Col. Tonu Toomepuu, staff judge advocate and the Army’s chief lawyer in Operation Desert Storm.
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