“Every day they were on our shoulders. They destroyed the dignity of all Pashtuns,” says the father of Dad Mohammad, who was killed by an Australian soldier in a field, allegedly illegally.
in which Justice Anthony Besanko found overwhelmingly that Roberts-Smith was, on the balance of probabilities, a murderer, a war criminal, a bully and a disgrace to his country and the Australian military.
that, after having the audio professionally enhanced and analysed, the patrol commander seems to say “yes”. Soldier C then fires three rounds into the cowering Dad Mohammad, killing him instantly.ABC News Fazal Rahman, 35, explained how on February 15, 2011, he was slaughtering a sheep at home in Deh Roshan, just north of Tarin Kowt, to celebrate the birthday of the prophet Muhammad. He was used to the sound of helicopters and continued his work as two Black Hawks landed nearby, disgorging Australian troops.
Folders titled “Civil[ian] Kills” in the Tarin Kowt office of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission .The process was far from forensic. And while staff attempted to corroborate allegations through interviews and documentation, the threshold for an allegation of unlawful treatment to be deemed legitimate, to me, seemed worryingly low.When I asked a source with intimate knowledge of the investigative process whether the AIHRC report was up to their standards, they told me plainly: “No.
“F--- their mothers. F--- their wives,” he said when I asked of his recollections of the Australians. “Every day, they were on our shoulders. They destroyed the dignity of all Pashtuns.” The day of Dad Mohammad’s killing, Jamshid had been working in a neighbouring district, harvesting opium from the spring poppy crop. When he heard of his brother’s death, he said, “I was scared and didn’t want to go to my home”.
Dr Abdul Ghafar Stanikzai, a medical doctor from eastern Afghanistan’s Logar province who has since resettled in Australia, helped to establish the commission’s Tarin Kowt office in 2009 and says it wasn’t long before people began to report cases of abuse by Afghan soldiers, police, intelligence officers and by Australian soldiers.
One ADF legal officer, who first met Stanikzai in 2011, was former major David McBride, who is awaiting trial in Australia on charges relating to the leaking of documents, later published by the ABC, indicating attempts by the ADF to cover up potential war crimes. One of the Australian soldiers rammed his rifle into Lalai’s face. Two of his back teeth broke and his nose, he points out, is still crooked from the blow.
Australian special forces did more harm than good. Despite the staggering number they killed, they created more enemies than existed before they came. Like the rest, his account was disbelieved and disregarded. As McBride put it to me in 2021: “No credibility at all was given to the Afghan version of events. They were all considered to be Taliban agents [or] cynical people on the make.
after he confirmed he had sent letters to current and former defence force personnel to inform them theirs might be cancelled.Defence declined to answer specific questions on the subject or make Sawade available for an interview, saying only that the allegations had been investigated and responses provided.
Malaysia Latest News, Malaysia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Report shows first increase in Australian teen smoking since the 90sThere has been a drastic rise in vapers under the age of 25, a new study from the Australian Health Department revealed.
Read more »
Australian minimum wage increased by 5.75 per cent in Fair Work Commission decisionAustralia's minimum wage has increased by 5.75 per cent, which is lower than the current rate of inflation of 7 per cent.
Read more »
Ben Roberts-Smith loses biggest defamation trial in Australian historyFormer Australian soldier Benjamin Roberts-Smith has lost the biggest defamation trial in Australian history. A judge found newspapers substantially proved the decorated soldier committed serious war crimes in Afghanistan.
Read more »
From 'Australian hero' to 'disgracing' his country — inside a decorated soldier's massive fallOnce a hero to politicians and civilians alike, a court found the 44-year-old's reputation is now so lowered that two unproven allegations of battlefield murder weren't enough to defame him.
Read more »
Vietnam curbs enthusiasm for Australian coalVietnam to grow coal consumption for another seven years at least
Read more »
Three charged after 800kg of cocaine found on cargo ship off Western Australian coastAFP and Border Force officers discovered the 29 packages of cocaine after receiving an SOS call from a small cabin cruiser. 9News
Read more »