“Shuffle off this mortal coil, you c***. It’s nothing you wouldn’t do to us. Obviously this doesn’t go anywhere, fellas. I just broke the Geneva convention.”
Royal Marine Sergeant Alexander Blackman’s chilling words moments after he shot dead a Taliban insurgent at close range in Afghanistan on 15 September 2011, dismiss the Geneva conventions, show little fear of getting caught, and possibly indicate combat stress disorder. The insurgent lay seriously wounded from an Apache helicopter attack by the time Blackman’s patrol captured him and took away his high explosive grenade and AK47.
Blackman dragged him out of the sight of soldiers aboard the nearby Apache and prevented others from administering first aid, before firing a 9mm round into the insurgent’s chest. A patrol member’s helmet cam captured the event however and by chance the recording was later discovered by military police.
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