"In 2012, when Bales murdered 16 Afghan civilians in Panjwai, a small district in Kandahar province, the Afghan government could not prevent his extradition back to the United States for a military court martial. For Afghans, removing the perpetrator of the crimes from the purview and judgment of his victims and their families seemed an audacious act. While Afghan witnesses and family members of the victims were flown from Kandahar to Joint Base Fort Lewis-McChord in Washington state by the US military to testify at Bales’ trial, the six witnesses who made this journey - on two separate occasions - found the American justice system in general, and the military court martial in particular, unfamiliar, grotesquely protracted, and in essence, unjust."
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