Soldiers who desecrate the dead see themselves as hunters
Sunday, May 20, 2012 - 22:20
in Psychology & Sociology
Modern day soldiers who mutilate enemy corpses or take body-parts as trophies are usually thought to be suffering from the extreme stresses of battle. But, new research shows that this sort of misconduct has most often been carried out by fighters who viewed the enemy as racially different from themselves and used images of the hunt to describe their actions.