Need to be careful when it comes to atrocity stories involving children.
Dead baby stories are very emotive and there is always the temptation to embellish the original story for propaganda purposes.
FAO of Roy in case he worries that the original author doesn't get due credit.
I cut an pasted this from the internet.
Example from centuries ago.
In a surprising number of conflicts, propagandists have accused enemy troops of very similar (and appalling) atrocities. Among the most common allegations are claims that babies had been impaled on swords, spears, pikes, or bayonets, and that fetuses had been sliced from the bellies of pregnant women.
Some examples of groups being accused of these activities throughout history:
Irish Catholic forces in the Rebellion of 1641:
The Irish rebels were also accused of cutting fetuses from women's bodies, as a modern historian says here:
One of the iconic narratives that comes up in hearsay evidence is reports of atrocities against pregnant women who were said to have been ripped open, had their babies pulled out and beaten against rocks
A more up to date example would be the Nayirah testimony.
Everything she said turned out to be completely false.
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