{"id":13776,"date":"2012-08-27T03:28:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T07:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=13776"},"modified":"2012-08-27T03:28:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T07:28:32","slug":"slap-on-the-wrist-for-troops-in-corpse-urination-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/08\/slap-on-the-wrist-for-troops-in-corpse-urination-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Slap on the Wrist for Troops in Corpse Urination Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/marines-pee.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13779\" title=\"marines-pee\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/marines-pee.jpg?resize=490%2C274\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Common Dreams staff <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Three of the Marines involved in the video that surfaced in January of<\/span> <span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2012\/01\/12\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">soldiers urinating on the corpses of Afghans<\/span><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color:#000000\">have received &#8220;nonjudicial punishment&#8221; on Monday for their roles in the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Because they received &#8220;nonjudicial punishment,&#8221; their names do not have to be released. There are no criminal charges; the military describes it as &#8220;an administrative matter.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">As the Defense Department describes nonjudicial punishment:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Nonjudicial punishment may include reduction in rank, restriction to a military base, extra duties, forfeiture of pay, a reprimand, or a combination of these measures. It becomes a permanent part of the Marine&#8217;s record with the potential to affect re-enlistment eligibility and promotion.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">But as the Guardian reported last year in the wake of the video&#8217;s surfacing, &#8220;Despoiling of the dead i<\/span>s <span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icrc.org\/customary-ihl\/eng\/docs\/v1_rul_rule113\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">illegal under the Geneva conventions<\/span><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color:#000000\">as well as under US military law.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The video (see below) shows four U.S. Marines urinating on three corpses in civilian clothing in Afghanistan. In the video, the marines are laughing. One soldier says, &#8220;Have a great day, buddy,&#8221; while another says, &#8220;Golden like a shower.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2012\/08\/27-8\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common Dreams staff Three of the Marines involved in the video that surfaced in January of soldiers urinating on the corpses of Afghans have received..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,43,97,119],"tags":[295,197,226,355],"class_list":["post-13776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-media-culture","category-us-news","category-war","tag-afghanistan","tag-imperialism","tag-imperialist-war","tag-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/marines-pee_13776_96a72.jpg?fit=580%2C325&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}