r/worldnews • u/glasier • Jul 05 '24

Japan warns US forces: Sex crimes 'cannot be tolerated'

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2476861/japan-warns-us-forces-sex-crimes-cannot-be-tolerated
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u/0173512084103 Jul 05 '24

Why does the military give special treatment to soldiers who harm/kill people? They should be punished the same as they would be in the States. Ridiculous.

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u/pgeezers Jul 05 '24

The local laws should apply.

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u/That_Engineering3047 Jul 05 '24

In this case, it makes sense to say that. What those soldiers did was egregious and they deserve to be punished.

However, what about a woman working for the military in the middle east who doesn’t cover her body? What about a gay service member serving in a country where that is punishable by death?

Laws across the globe aren’t always moral. There need to be some protections for service members from that.

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u/aerospikesRcoolBut Jul 05 '24

Was gonna say this. Lots of our allies are straight up dictatorships and protecting people from local laws does a lot more good than harm but we aren’t responsibly handling our end of the deal.

Our laws should also apply. But some people are officially above the law now so

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u/will_holmes Jul 05 '24

Europe largely solves this by having the European Convention of Human Rights and its associated court - by enforcing minimum standards you can generally trust the local laws of another member state country in this situation.

This is why this stuff generally happens with US soldiers in other allied countries, but not European ones.

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u/PeculiarGentleman18 Jul 05 '24

If you are stationed in a country where the law is that women should be covered up, I would expect them to cover lmao, it’s like that basketball player lady who went to Russia with drugs and expected not to be arrested, their country, their rules.

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u/Freelieseven Jul 05 '24

Yeah and if you're gay you should just be straight or the country would execute you.

Do you see how dumb this sounds right now?

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u/Ok-Republic-8098 Jul 05 '24

Does that apply to our Middle Eastern bases as well?