| Actually, I didn't quite say one shouldn't speculate, I said one should not pass off speculation as fact. I do not consider deaths arising from mistake automatically to be atrocities. Therefore, I am sure that the confusion about who was VC lead to a number of unfortunate deaths, but not necessarily atrocities. Similarly, I do not think that all burning of villages constitutes atrocity, although it may. Thus, for me, it is a matter of whether a reasonable effort, under the circumstances, was made to abide by the humanitarian rules of war, also known as the Geneva Conventions. That seems to me to be a highly disputed matter, and one that may best be resolved in the consciences of the men actually under fire, absent adequate information to bring to trial........ |
