One thing we can say though is that at least the government of the UK is holding the hearings. Here in the US, we're acting like we think there's no such thing as the rule of law.

However, I expect that the soldiers in question weren't an example of people who have power over others abusing it to the point of depravity. I think it much more likely that they were behaving in a way that they believed they were expected to behave by their superiors.