Graphic pictures testify war victors posing with and humiliating dead enemies has gone on for centuries. By. Daily Mail Reporter. Published. 2. 1: 0. GMT, 2. 0 April 2.
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GMT, 2. 1 April 2. Graphic photos that emerged last week of U. S soldiers posing with the blooded remains of three Afghan suicide bombers understandably appalled both countries. The photos, which showed U. S soldiers smiling while they held the blown up body parts of suicide bombers, were criticized as 'disgusting' by Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai and further damaged diplomatic relations between the two countries. The horrific pictures sparked suitable outrage but they do not indicate a new result of conflict as victors have humiliated their conquered enemies since war began, as this harrowing collection of images through history proves. Warning: Graphic photos.
Mythology: An oil painting by Donato Creti depicts Greek hero Achilles dragging Hector's body behind his chariot in the Trojan wars. Victorious: A 1. 78. Native Indian American holding the scalp of an enemy in one hand and his weapon, a tomahawk, in the other. Gruesome: These 'souvenirs' were shown at Germany's Buchenwald concentration camp in 1. Furthermore fighters posing with the dead bodies of their enemies has happened both through the centuries and across the world.
A disturbing collection of photos. The Washington Times, shows images of victors from wars.
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World War II, Vietnam, Iraq and, as last week’s news. Afghanistan parading enemy corpses as trophies. The series of images date back to mythology with an oil painting of the Greek hero Achilles dragging the body of Hector behind his chariot after his success in the Trojan Wars.
A 1. 78. 9 print of an Native Indian American displaying the severed scalp of his enemy is an early testament that war often leads to the victorious publically and graphically displaying their bloody triumphs over their enemies. Trophy: A human skull keeps watch over US soldiers encamped in the Vietnamese jungle during the Vietnam War in 1. Brutal: Somalis loyal to warlord Mohamed Farah Aideed drag the near- naked body of a slain American soldier through the streets of Mogadishu in 1. A photograph taken in Germany's. Buchenwald concentration camp in 1.
Nazi soldiers to show off to locals. The gruesome. display includes the shrunken heads of their victims, body organs. Other. photos show victors triumphing and humiliating their enemies in the.
Somali Civil War in the 1. Vietnam and the war in Iraq. The latest in this kind of disturbing image. Watch Triple 9 Online Hulu on this page. Los Angeles Times published photos taken in.
Taliban stronghold of Zabul province. One photo shows members of the 8. Airborne Division posing with Afghan police holding the severed legs of a suicide bomber.
Enemy: This image purports to show the body of Abu Musab al- Zarqawi, the al- Qaida- linked militant who was killed by a U. S air strike in 2. Past damaging incidents: A video posted online in January claimed to show four Marines urinating on dead bodies in Afghanistan January incident: One of the men can be heard saying. Have a great day, buddy' as his colleagues laugh and another jokes. Golden like a shower' and 'Yeahhhh!'Another. Division appears to show the hand of a dead. U. S. soldier's shoulder as the soldier smiles.
The U. S. government quickly condemned the photos, with its ambassador in Kabul, Ryan Crocker, calling the behaviour shown in the pictures ‘morally repugnant’. Leon Panetta, the U. S. defence secretary, promised that those involved would be punished. Fox News contributor and retired U. S Army Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters described himself as 'furious' at how civilian army leaders and the media had so readily condemned the soldiers with 'no context.'In an interview with Fox News.
Peters also touched on the the history of soldiers treating enemies in this way. The Greatest Generation sent Japanese skulls home to their girlfriends,' Peters said. I’m not condoning it, but I’m trying to make the point that our soldiers out on the front line and our marines are under tremendous stresses. War is not a ladies auxiliary tea party, and it’s all too easy for people comfortable in Los Angeles, or New York or the White House to condemn the troops without context.'In January, a video was released which showed four U. S. marines urinating on Afghan corpses and in February, the inadvertent burning of copies of the Koran at a U.
S. base triggered riots that left 3.