Times<\/a> du 13 ao\u00fbt : <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00ab New figures released by the Ministry of Defence last week show that 2,030 soldiers went missing from their units between 2003 and 2005 and were later dismissed by the service. A further 740 are on the run but have not yet been kicked out. Over the previous three years there were 1,130 dismissals.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Military Families Against the War, the organisation set up by parents of soldiers killed in Iraq, said the figures were a clear reflection of disenchantment brought about by the war. Rose Gentle, a spokeswoman for the group, whose son Gordon was killed in Iraq, said: Half of these boys are little more than kids. They’ve not got the right equipment. They see their friends killed. It’s affected a lot of them mentally. That’s why they’re not going back.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Rather than finding the deserters, the army tends simply to write off the missing soldiers and dismiss them in their absence. The new figures show that only 11 have been court-martialled since the war began.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb There can now be no doubt about the serious impact of the disastrous war and occupation of Iraq, said Nick Harvey, the Liberal Democrat defence spokesman. With demanding commitments in a number of theatres the army is already overstretched. We cannot afford to lose soldiers at such a rate.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb The number of soldiers dismissed each year for going Awol indefinitely, effectively deserting, averaged 375 in the three years preceding the war. It rose to 495 in 2003 and to 815 in 2004 and was 720 last year.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 13 ao\u00fbt 2006 \u00e0 20H03<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Autre cadeau de la paire Bush-Blair \u00e0 l’arm\u00e9e britannique : les d\u00e9sertions. Des chiffres du minist\u00e8re de la d\u00e9fense montrent que les d\u00e9sertions ont plus que doubl\u00e9 depuis le d\u00e9clenchement de la guerre en Irak. Cette augmentation des d\u00e9sertions aggrave de fa\u00e7on substantielle le probl\u00e8me g\u00e9n\u00e9ral qui est pos\u00e9 au minist\u00e8re de la d\u00e9fense, au… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2894,4875,5772],"class_list":["post-67874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-armee","tag-britannique","tag-desertions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}