{"id":38888,"date":"2013-06-04T12:46:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T11:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/uk-soldiers-confess-to-afghan-civilian-abuse\/38888\/"},"modified":"2013-06-04T12:46:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T11:46:12","slug":"uk-soldiers-confess-to-afghan-civilian-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/uk-soldiers-confess-to-afghan-civilian-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"UK soldiers confess to Afghan civilian abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i class=\"border-bg\"><\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"content p-page\">\n    <!-- crumbs --><br \/>\n    <!--\/\/ crumbs --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-wp\">\n<div class=\"cont-wp-mid\">\n<div class=\"cont-wp\">\n<p>Two British soldiers have admitted abusing Afghan civilians, including a child, at a court martial hearing in Germany. One racially abused an Afghan man, while the other pleaded guilty to indecent behavior towards a child.<\/p>\n<p>\n  At the trial, which happened in Sennelager, northwest Germany,<br \/>\n  one of the two guilty soldiers \u2014 identified as \u2018Soldier X\u2019 \u2014 said<br \/>\n  that in December 2011 he pulled an Afghan boy\u2019s hand towards his<br \/>\n  crotch and instructed him to \u2018touch my special place.\u2019\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u2018Soldier X\u2019 further admitted to insulting a different Afghan<br \/>\n  child between October 2011 and January 2012. He was cleared of<br \/>\n  forcing an Afghan girl to touch him on a separate occasion.\n  <\/p>\n<p>A third unidentified man, their patrol officer, was declared not<br \/>\n  guilty. He had stood accused of failing to deal with the offences<br \/>\n  in his professional capacity as a patrol officer.<br \/>\n  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <!-- \/\/ comments --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <!--\/\/ content-wp -->\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <!--\/\/ content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/\/ aside --><\/p>\n<div class=\"main-footer clearfix\">\n<p class=\"copyright\">\u00a9 Autonomous Nonprofit Organization \u201cTV-Novosti\u201d, 2005\u20142013. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This article originally appeared on: <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/british-soldier-afghan-abuse-209\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"UK soldiers confess to Afghan civilian abuse\">RT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two British soldiers have admitted abusing Afghan civilians, including a child, at a court martial hearing in Germany. One racially abused an Afghan man, while the other pleaded guilty to indecent behavior towards a child. At the trial, which happened in Sennelager, northwest Germany, one of the two guilty soldiers \u2014 identified as \u2018Soldier X\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}