Australia’s most decorated soldier arrested over alleged war crimes (edition.cnn.com)
from geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to world@lemmy.world on 08 Apr 07:44
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Australia’s most decorated living soldier was arrested on Tuesday and will be charged with five counts of war crime murders relating to the killing of unarmed civilians while on deployment in Afghanistan.

The man, whom police identified as a 47-year-old former Australian Defence Force member and media named as Ben Roberts-Smith, was arrested at Sydney Airport on Tuesday morning.

He will be charged with five counts of war crimes in connection to the murder of five people in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2012, Australian Federal Police (AFP) said. The maximum penalty for each charge is life imprisonment.

Among the accusations reported were that Roberts-Smith had shot dead an unarmed Afghan teenager and kicked a handcuffed man off a cliff before ordering him to be shot dead.

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Casterial@lemmy.world on 08 Apr 08:05 next collapse

Wonder if we’ll ever charge Trump

geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml on 08 Apr 09:17 collapse

Hahaha no the Dems already let him off last time.

Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world on 08 Apr 09:57 next collapse

So he got another decoration?

SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz on 08 Apr 10:35 next collapse

Is this the one FriendlyJordies was talking about?

WILSOOON@programming.dev on 08 Apr 11:00 collapse

Think so yeah, next step would be to get mr McBride out of prison, but like hell that would ever happen unfortunately

tired_n_bored@lemmy.world on 08 Apr 12:41 collapse

Remember that armies are there just to kill people.