legallooptheloop, the last time you were in a hostile location, wasn’t the morale of your Unit and those around you a cause for concern? Similarly, didn’t support from the general public at home feature as something valuable to you? Most importantly, perhaps, didn’t the prospect of the opposition being “fired up” by lurid and sensational news reports of alleged allied/British atrocities, broadcast worldwide, worry you? Even proven offences, rightly reported, can have an adverse influence on events if publicised in particularly sensational ways.
I agree that here should be no cover-ups but public blow by blow accounts of trials, often in graphic detail, are not helpful and add little to gaining the final truth and justice.