But this does remind me of that excellent docu-series The Line about members of a Navy SEAL platoon who accused their chief of war crimes.
https://tv.apple.com/us/show/the-line/umc.cmc.4u53f7zokr7g40...
The people that enter them voluntarily, tend to be of two varieties.
1) Ideologically driven. They think entering their side will drive society/themselves closer to their ideological goal of how the world should be organized
2) Visceral, instinctual need. They have an instinctual drive to hunt humans. It is absolutely wild to meet someone like this. Most people in this situation will do it in a society approved way, like joining the military, although in a civil war society often kind of loses track of what is actually going on there.
I will say, absolutely and without question, (2) made the much better soldiers. These people are exhibiting a deep human 'need' that helped perpetuate some tribes, but this time in a purely psychopathic way. If the Bosnians had simply had them pay to fight in the war against actual combatants, it might have worked nearly as well.
mensetmanusman•27m ago
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/no-evidence-of-ma...
lifestyleguru•22m ago
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/09/the-gaza-famil...
mykowebhn•17m ago
From Wikipedia:
> The Fraser Institute is a conservative Canadian public policy think tank registered as a charity.
This is the first time I am hearing about the mass graves being a hoax.
gruez•7m ago
>As of April 2025, no bodies have been exhumed from the suspected gravesites, largely due to a lack of community consensus on whether to investigate detected anomalies at the risk of disturbing burials.[9] As of January 2024, at least three official excavations had been performed with no bodies discovered, though at least one excavation only investigated a portion of the reported ground anomalies at that site.[10][11][12] Disputes regarding the conclusiveness of the evidence has helped spawn a movement of denialism about the existence of some or all residential school burial sites.[9][13][14] Indigenous groups and academics have dismissed claims of a "mass grave hoax", saying that claimed discoveries of mass graves were present in a minority of stories published by mainstream media and that there had been public misinterpretation of what had actually been announced in 2021.[15
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc...
It sounds like the "mass" part of the "mass graves" is disputed, and there's motte-and-bailey on both sides (eg. "you must think nobody/bazillion died in residential schools") muddying the dispute.
Steven420•6m ago
evanjrowley•15m ago
Not the exact circumstances as described in the article, but killings were very real.
ignoramous•11m ago
You've a gripe with outrage and yet... I mean, any think tank can write anything they think and post it to the interwebs. Here's the other side's perspective:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/denialists-t...jalapenof•10m ago