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"Weirdness" is a weird word to use.
I posted it for a few reasons; one it's fine journalism, proof that there are reporters with integrity and compassion. Second, as noted above, it may be just one of many such atrocities; in this case it came to light because of the actions of one soldier.
In many ways it's typical of what happens in war; the My Lai massacre, the thousands of rapes committed by Soviet troops when they took Berlin, the rape, torture and mutilation that has characterised recent wars in Africa. Ad nauseum.
But I do think you have a point; the article moves us because of the studied cruelty of the murderers and because we can put names to the victims, we can identify with them, as Tynan suggests, we can imagine the horror. But those who plan and deploy air strikes, in Iraq, in Gaza, in Chechnya, knowing that they will kill civilians, children, they are equally sickening and they should also be tried and imprisoned. But they won't be.