What I wrote is commonsense and natural justice should be applied, that even those accused may have been forced or intimidated into committing crimes.
I have seen how a minority of junior officers and NCOs behave in every day life as opposed to the stress of combat and that behaviour was malicious and self serving, sometimes even technically criminal. I have seen how they intimidate and silence subordinates and ingraciate themselves to superiors. I have also seen how most, but not all are sidelined and streamed away from important roles once their short comings are realised as they are quietly encouraged to find a new career. What I have never seen is a single one of them held to account for their actual wrong doing.
I pity the troops who serve under them and love being legally able to complain about than and take action against them when they try the same crap in the outside world.
At no point am I presuming guilt. At no point am I suggesting punishment without due process. In fact what I am quite clearly suggesting is showing compassion to members who have technically committed crimes when there is also coercion and threats involved. I.e. understand that even when offences have been committed and proven, mitigating factors need to be taken into account.
I can't see what your issue is with that.
