This is Pte Johnson Beharry VC, of the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment.
He was awarded Britains highest honour, the Victoria Cross, for acts of outstanding bravery in rescuing his fellow soldiers in two separate ambushes in Iraq during 2004. He was badly wounded in the latter and still carries the pain of those wounds to this day.
Last week, the British National Party, an extreme right wing political party, placed an article on their website claiming that Pte Beharry only received his medal because he was black and that what he had done was only routine. These nazi scumbags sicken me to the core. That they belittle the honour bestowed on one of our bravest is testament to their warped and disgusting politics. I spit on them and every one of their supporters. Bastards!
He was awarded Britains highest honour, the Victoria Cross, for acts of outstanding bravery in rescuing his fellow soldiers in two separate ambushes in Iraq during 2004. He was badly wounded in the latter and still carries the pain of those wounds to this day.
Last week, the British National Party, an extreme right wing political party, placed an article on their website claiming that Pte Beharry only received his medal because he was black and that what he had done was only routine. These nazi scumbags sicken me to the core. That they belittle the honour bestowed on one of our bravest is testament to their warped and disgusting politics. I spit on them and every one of their supporters. Bastards!
BNP: war hero Johnson Beharry only got medal because he is black
The British National Party has provoked outrage after claiming that the Iraq war hero Johnson Beharry was only awarded the Victoria Cross because he is black.
The BNP, led by Nick Griffin, called Johnson Beharry "an immigrant" and claimed his heroics, which saved the lives of 30 fellow soldiers, were simply "routine".
On its website the far-right political party states that Lance Corporal Beharry only received Britain's top military honour because of "positive discrimination by the PC-mad government".
It comes just days after the party held an Armed Forces Awareness Day to try to portray themselves as "the only party that supports our troops".
Grenada-born L/Cpl Beharry was honoured in 2005 after twice saving lives under enemy fire. He became the Army's most high-profile war hero when he received the VC for "repeated extreme gallantry and unquestioned valour" for the two rescues in May and June 2004 "despite a harrowing weight of incoming fire".
BNP: war hero Johnson Beharry only got medal because he is black - Telegraph