#16 Archived Message
Posted by Ian M on July 29, 2022, 11:25 pm, in reply to "Project: to find 29 examples of the BBC failing 'due impartiality' in Ukraine reporting"
#16: 'Lack of Russian military discipline' could result in war crimes in Ukraine, says lawyer, June 5th:
War crimes lawyer Sir Howard Morrison QC: 'Different cultures deal with war in different ways. Some cultures are just simply brutal in the sense that they want to win their conflict at any cost and at any price and take no notice of whether or not that involves flattening towns, destroying civilians, destroying cultural property. Others are more cautious, others obey the Geneva conventions and protocols in a much more managed way. Western armies by and large now have lawyers embedded with them for targeting purposes. I've not seen any evidence of that so far in the Ukraine.' Newsreader Sophie Raworth: 'But some of it just seems so random. Some of the instances that we've seen, for example the CCTV footage of two security guards, Ukrainians walking away and Russian soldiers shooting them in the back as they walked away.' Howard Morrison: 'Well the immediate cause of that is a lack of discipline, a lack of military training [...] I've read from some American military commentary that it's the lack of a proper non-commissioned officer base who would bring that sort of discipline down to the front line, and that is lacking in it seems in the Russian military, and a lot of people are simply doing whatever they want at the time because they think they can get away with it.' ***** No comments from Russian officials about alleged lack of discipline or war crimes committed. Racist othering of Russians and their 'brutal culture' dressed up in legalese. Ridiculous claim of western militaries being somehow better in their wars and that embedding lawyers prevents war crimes. How did that work out in Iraq & Afghanistan? Fresh allegations emerge every couple of months about murders committed by Western troops during those occupations and there's no reason to think having a few lawyers around will stop that. Will they be going along on all the night raids? Will they be watching everything the drone operators do and following it up with investigations on the ground? Of course not.
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- Project: to find 29 examples of the BBC failing 'due impartiality' in Ukraine reporting - Ian M July 26, 2022, 8:32 pm
- #2 - Ian M July 26, 2022, 11:25 pm
- #4 - Ian M July 27, 2022, 12:03 am
- #5 - Ian M July 27, 2022, 12:27 am
- Good work Ian. Hope to chime in once able to understand Ofcom dodgy use of changeable goalposts. nm - marknadim July 27, 2022, 1:37 am
- #6 - Ian M July 27, 2022, 6:55 pm
- Re: #7 - Keith-264 July 27, 2022, 8:11 pm
- Re: #7 - Ian M July 27, 2022, 11:01 pm
- #8 - Ian M July 27, 2022, 10:54 pm
- #9 - Ian M July 27, 2022, 11:22 pm
- #10 - Ian M July 27, 2022, 11:50 pm
- #11? Remember this one from Grayzone? "BBC correspondent-fixer shaping Ukraine coverage is PR op" - marknadim July 28, 2022, 5:56 am
- #12 - Ian M July 28, 2022, 6:52 pm
- #13 - Ian M July 28, 2022, 7:20 pm
- Re: #13 - Ian M July 28, 2022, 7:22 pm
- #14 - Ian M July 28, 2022, 8:21 pm
- #15 - Ian M July 28, 2022, 11:01 pm
- #16 - Ian M July 29, 2022, 11:25 pm
- #17 - Ian M July 29, 2022, 11:56 pm
- #18: - Ian M July 30, 2022, 7:53 pm
- #19 - Ian M July 30, 2022, 11:14 pm
- #20 and #21 - Ian M July 31, 2022, 12:05 am
- #22 - Ian M July 31, 2022, 7:27 pm
- #23 - Ian M July 31, 2022, 8:14 pm
- #24 - Ian M July 31, 2022, 11:18 pm
- Re: #24 - Tomski August 2, 2022, 10:00 pm
- #25 - Ian M July 31, 2022, 11:43 pm
- #26 - Ian M August 1, 2022, 10:53 pm
- #27 - Ian M August 1, 2022, 11:34 pm
- #28 - Ian M August 2, 2022, 12:14 am
- #29 - Ian M August 2, 2022, 7:01 pm
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