Lets Read
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7,275 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Sep
Lets Read’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But there was no mistake.
The now deceased sniper did indeed seem to be an Italian citizen, and not one of Serbian extraction either, if his name was anything to go by.
The Serb we captured had a load of cash on him, so at first we thought the Italians might have been mercenaries of some description.
But once we got hold of someone who spoke Serbian to act as a translator, the captured Serb told a very different story.
It was one I didn't believe at the time, but after seeing the article I've attached to this email, I realized that he might well have been telling the truth all along.
Through the translator, and having sweetened him up with some ciggies, water, and a little ration packs, our Serb prisoner was only too willing to tell us what was going on.
And when he did, we were shocked.
The two Italians hadn't been mercenaries, which made sense since the Serbs weren't exactly flush with cash.
Instead, it was them that had been paying the Serbs for a chance to shoot at UN soldiers and Bosnian civilians.
And we couldn't believe our ears, and neither could our translator, because at one point, their expression went from deadpan to very, very confused.
We asked the woman to double-check for us and get the man to confirm that what he was organizing was effectively war tourism.
The Serbs said that he was just following orders and had no choice but to do as his commander told him, or it'd be him who got a bullet.
He couldn't tell us much about the Italians that he was escorting, only that they had a lot of money with them and they knew absolutely sod all about soldiering.
My words, not his.
Now when all was said and done, we had little choice but to report evidence of war tourism to our troop commander.
He was shocked, just as we'd been, especially once we'd showed him the Italian passport we'd found on the dead man.
But frustratingly, we needed a lot more than just one man's word in a passport to prove an accusation like war tourism, and that's aside from the fact that it's not strictly a war crime.
Our sergeant asked if it was worth going back to collect the two men's bodies, but our true commander didn't think it was worth the risk.
If it was true, and those two Italians were tourists paying good money to kill people, then they'd already received the most suitable punishment possible.
Our lieutenant also said that there was very little chance the Italians would even claim them.
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