ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Basra prison incident

Okay kiddo, so there was a place called the Basra Prison in Iraq where bad guys who did bad things were kept. One day, some British soldiers went to the prison to help train the Iraqi soldiers who were keeping watch over the bad guys.

But something bad happened. The British soldiers were accused of doing mean things to the bad guys, like hurting them and being very rude. Some people were very angry about this and protested outside of the prison.

The British soldiers said that they didn't do anything wrong, but some people didn't believe them. The British government had to investigate what happened and they found out that some of the soldiers did do some bad things.

So, some of the soldiers got in trouble and had to leave the army. This was a very big deal and caused a lot of problems between Iraq and Britain. It's important to always treat people with kindness, even if they are bad guys, because everyone deserves to be treated with respect.