Betrayal of our soldiers

OUR young soldiers who were sent to the Bogside are to be hounded through the courts (Mail).

Politicians and civil servants who have encountered nothing more terrifying than a paper cut and an overspend on the entertainment budget sent them to Northern Ireland during the Troubles and should have the guts and dignity to insist on standing alongside them.

VICTOR LAUNERT, Matlock Bath, Derbys. WHEN is the appalling witch-hunt against our Armed Forces going to stop? I am not surprised recruitment figures are low.

To lay your life on the line for Queen and country only to be crucified by lawyers and inadequate politicians is hardly an incentive to join up. ANGELA THOMPSON,

Vale, Guernsey. HOW low can this country sink when it seeks to prosecute British soldiers for something that may or may not have happened 40 years ago, when it has pardoned IRA terrorists?

MIKE JONES, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire. IF ORDERED into battle and there is a chance they may have to kill the enemy, the Armed Forces should refuse to go until they have secured written proof they will not be prosecuted years after the event.

To all the brave men and women who fought and died for us in Northern Ireland and foreign fields, I hang my head in shame for the way you are being treated.

J. BALMFORTH, Fleetwood, Lancs.