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Lions led by cowardly asses? Bungling Aussie defence chief covers up war crimes scandal to save officer mates... and himself
Blaming ALL the squaddies and exonerating ALL the top brass for the murderous behaviour of troops in Afghanistan not only looks terrible, but is unsustainable. It’s time for military leaders to take responsibility – or be sacked.
Nov 30, 2020 19:58
China’s image of an Aussie soldier slitting a child’s throat was BRUTAL, but why shouldn’t Beijing highlight Western war crimes?
Australia has reacted with fury to a tweet from a Chinese official depicting a child being murdered by a soldier in Afghanistan. Highlighting the West’s atrocities is, it seems, still considered unacceptable.
Nov 30, 2020 12:19
‘Apologize to the Afghan people’: China scoffs after Canberra demands Beijing retract poster about Aussie war-crime report
Beijing has rejected calls for an apology after a Chinese official shared a doctored poster of an Australian soldier attacking an Afghan girl, urging Canberra to instead seek forgiveness for its alleged war crimes in Afghanistan.
Nov 30, 2020 10:04
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Australia demands apology after China urges war crimes probe with meme of ‘Aussie soldier slitting Afghan child’s throat’
The Australian PM has demanded an official apology from China, after its Foreign Ministry spokesman called for justice over a recent war crimes report – with an illustration of a soldier holding a knife to a child's throat.
Nov 30, 2020 03:06
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Car bomb kills 30 troops at Afghan base
At least 30 security personnel were killed and more than 20 injured when a suicide car bomb hit a military base in Afghanistan early on Sunday in one of the deadliest attacks against the country’s forces in months.
Nov 29, 2020 08:05
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NINE Aussie soldiers take their own lives as a war crimes scandal morphs into shambles, with top brass shielded & squaddies blamed
Canberra failed to deal with atrocities laid bare in a report which found that elite special forces’ murder of prisoners and innocent civilians in Afghanistan was “disgraceful.” Sadly, the guilty will probably get away with it.
Nov 26, 2020 19:40