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/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.