Those aren’t ‘UK solders’ - those are mercenaries who happen to come from the UK 🤪
Big difference
Those aren’t ‘UK solders’ - those are mercenaries
Hessians could be paid to fight for either side.
“Mercenaries are not entitled to the status of combatant, prisoner of war (API Article 47), or any of the categories of protected persons provided for by the Geneva Conventions, unless they are wounded or sick, although they must always benefit from humane treatment.”
If, so, they have no rights.
“Those aren’t ‘UK solders’ - those are mercenaries who happen to come from the UK 🤪”
That’s what I thought when one was 48 years old!