British war graves attacked in Benghazi
 

**** there is no other words needed for those that did this :mad:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17244211

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l will second that sentiment totally.:td::(

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This appeared on Liveleak.com and there was no mention of it in the UK media, so I sent links to all and sundry and just by coincidence it got picked up.

I hope they are found and punished, but I doubt the new Libyan regime has any teeth or desire to act as yet.

How soon they forget those who have helped them to victory.

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I suspect it was the pro Gaddafi factions that committed the desecrations hens they don't think we helped them to victory at all ;)

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Doesn't matter who they are or who they support desecrating graves is the ultimate act of cowardice and only done by the lowest of ****.

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What I do not get is why Commonwealth Nations bury their war dead at the place they died?

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Generally I believe families of the dead have a choice over repatriation, but in WW2 too many were dying and the logistics were impractical at a time of total war.

Incidentally, I don't believe these graves were attacked because they were British. The attackers seemed more interested in the fact that there were Christian and Jewish emblems on them.

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Chris beat me to it.. This is an attack on graves of a certain faith of which in that country is likely to be old military more than recent civilian.

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Yes, but were there soldiers on that site that were Muslim, Hindu and Sikh?

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Do you actually think that past the first couple of smashed graves they bothered checking which they were destroying :rolleyes:

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Yes, and Jewish - who all fought for the Allies in WW2.

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They did target which graves to destroy!

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Just goes to show what kind of stupid mentality there is in this world. It was probably a reaction to burning the koran books in Afganistan... stupid yanks strike again.

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It was a mistake, they made that very clear and they were the ones that said they did it in the first place!

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I thought Afghan workmen found bits of burnt text in the bin.

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I don't care who is in the grave, be they saints or scums of the earth, NO grave should be violated.