Pressure grows on Berlin after new Afghan skull photos
A German newspaper yesterday published more photographs showing soldiers posing with human skulls and bones in Afghanistan as pressure mounted on the government to find the culprits.
The defence ministry on Friday suspended two soldiers over a first set of photos published this week but Bild newspaper said the new pictures proved that German soldiers in Afghanistan regularly photographed skeletons and skulls, sometimes in obscene poses.
In one of the new photos, a soldier is pointing a gun at a human skeleton, in another a beret has been perched on top of a skull.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. One of the pictures shows bones positioned on the ground around four skulls to form the words CSR TEAM. The newspaper said CSR was an abbreviation of the military term Campsite Reconnaissance.
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