That is an utterly uncovincing defence for murdering prisoners and civilans.
First major thing we discovered about you is your highly embarrassing lack of knowledge of British colonial NZ,
now you try to show readers your analytical military lawyer skills regarding the legal provisions of the British Army Act.
initially objected to shooting prisoners but later were happy enough to shoot people out of hand, including civilians and black Africans.
British military law it appears didn't care for the three Boer children shot near Fort Edward...Morant and crew were not indicted on those.
Yet those killings were listed on a letter signed by Bushveldt Carbineers (BVC) at Fort Edward and dispatched to Col. F.H. Hall at Pietersburg.
(written by BVC Trooper Robert Mitchell Cochrane), a former Justice of the Peace from Western Australia, that accused members of the
Fort Edward garrison of six "disgraceful incidents"
Another being the fatal shooting of Reverend Heese of the Berlin Missionary Society... yet Cochrane who drafted the letter
made no mention of the fact, Rev. Heese's driver, a member of the Southern Ndebele people, was also shot and killed.
So there you have it, both British and colonials deciding that some murders of civilians by BVC were worthy of military justice
and others not.
