Will Australia Provide Justice for Afghanistan War Crimes?

Expand A soldier searches a house in a village in Baluchi pass in Uruzgan province, November 1, 2007. © 2007 Reuters The accounts are both shocking and horribly familiar. Soldiers acting as if they were above the law assault and murder civilians in a barbaric competition to outdo each other. New recruits compelled to prove themselves by killing. The victims are not enemies in battle but the elderly, men with disabilities, a farmer on his way to buy flour – essentially anyone who can’t fight back. The accused? Members of Australia’s elite special forces, the Special Air Services (SAS). The…

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