And another in strong agreement with Height's Good.
This is a passage from a book about the Falklands War by an ex-Para (Tony Banks).
A terrified young soldier stood up with his hands in the air jabbering away in Spanish and obviously wanting to surrender. He looked like a teenager — a boy, much like ourselves.
He was pleading for his life. We looked at each other and hesitated. A brief argument broke out between us. Somebody shouted at us to follow orders: ‘Shoot him.’ Out of the darkness, another voice replied, ‘No, you shoot him.’
As the argument went on, the boy crumpled to his knees. Finally, somebody threw a tarpaulin over him, shot him, and finished him off with a bayonet. That was it. We moved on.
I suggest that if the Para who did that had been prosecuted, then Sgt Blackman might not be in jail today. Blackman's sentence will be a strong deterrent to any other British soldiers who kill an unarmed (and injured) prisoner.