In May 2011 at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan, British filmmaker Chris Terrill watched a company of Royal Marine commandos head deep into hostile territory, their mission was to set up a new patrol base in order to lure the enemy into attacking them, literally becoming live bait in which to attract attack.
Out of the 100 Marines that went on this particular mission three would lose their lives, 20 would suffer from serious injury and one would eventually became known to everyone as “Marine A” for committing a battlefield crime so serious that it sent shockwaves around the world.
Sgt. Alexander Blackman (Marine A) was one of three Royal Marines who were anonymously tried by court-martial on 8 November 2013. Marines B and C were acquitted but Blackman was found to be guilty of the murder of an Afghan combatant, this made him the first British soldier to be convicted of a battlefield murder whilst serving abroad since the Second World War.
The conviction of Sgt. Blackman divided a nation as some condemned him as a war criminal, while others claim he is a casualty of war. This film explores the ethics of combat and rules of engagement during wartime revealing the mind-bending nature of active duty on the front line.
Chip below here must have forgotten to take his meds.. and obviously has not been to war. I do not think he should have shot that terrorist as he lay there wounded, but I understand why he did. Life in Prison is fucking ridiculous and nothing but PR stunt by the cunts that run your country. (I am an American ) The British government, same as the US, has done far worse shit . The only difference is they control the news and we don’t hear about it until everyone involved is dead and gone. Bush Sr’s CIA allowing cocaine to be smuggled into the US to arm the contras, the CIA smuggling heroin much ion the same.. wonder how many lives that ruined or ended…. I don’t know much about the Brits but grantee it’s much of the same. This man should have been punished but not life. He should have just let the terrorist POS bleed out!!
i think every last one of you will be sentence to a very bad stay somewhere, by now every last one of you know the war is a lie and you stand not. the camera man shall be sentenced the hardest, for he has documentations of cowards of men and his story reads what he was told to write. are there no men left? yes, one sits and writes this, my shame intact…