Speaking on Thursday, General Angus Campbell, head of the Australian Defense Forces, said some members of the Australian Special Forces serving in Afghanistan had a “warrior culture”.
An alleged incident, the details of which have been made to protect the identities of those involved, is mentioned in the document as “probably the most humiliating incident in Australia’s military history.”
The four-year investigation into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan by the Australian Defense Force (ADF) alleges that some patrol commanders, along with “demigods”, needed to shoot junior soldiers for their first killing in a process known as “bloody” . “The report states that it is” reliable information “that is sometimes placed by the body after a weapon or handheld radio so that the person appears to have died in action.
None of the 39 alleged extrajudicial killings occurred in the intense heat of the war, according to the report, and the dead were Afghan non-combatants or no longer combatants.
In the report, Campbell “sincerely and insecurely” apologized to the people of Afghanistan for the alleged conduct. He said it would have ruined the lives of Afghan families and communities, causing great pain and suffering.
The ADF recommends that the Australian Federal Police (AFP) investigate 19 members of the 2009 Australian Special Forces, including the killing and brutal treatment of non-combatants in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2013.
Campbell said he has accepted all of the 143 recommendations of the investigation.
Some of the accused are still in the army
Australia Australia’s role in the war in Afghanistan was divided into two phases – Operation Slipper from 2001 to 2014, then Afghan security forces took over most of the fighting, and then Operation High-Way, launched in 2015.
More than 26,000 Australian Australian troops served in Afghanistan during Operation Slipper, 41 of whom died fighting there. About 80 of the Australian Defense Forces are deployed to Afghanistan, according to the Department of Defense website, mostly involved in support and training.
Campbell said the report accused some of the soldiers of war crimes who were still serving in the Australian Army.
“I have instructed the Army Chief to review the circumstances of the case and the nature of that service based on the case, and he will take action immediately,” Campbell said.
“(Morrison) The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan assures the President of Afghanistan of an investigation and assurances of justice,” the statement said. The Afghan government said it had also sent a letter of apology to Australian Foreign Minister Mary Payne.
Nishank Motwani, deputy director of Kabul’s Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, said the investigation report was likely to leave Afghanistan with “a feeling of despair, support and anger that foreign troops could easily escape the cold-blooded killing.”
He said the report would allow foreign troops to be blamed for the suffering of Afghan civilians, although Taliban fighters were responsible for the deaths of more than 100,000 civilians over the past decade. Threat of revenge.
The alleged brutality in the report is detrimental to coalition efforts, said William Male, a professor of diplomacy at the Australian National University.
“If you are going to achieve a strategic result that will protect your objectives, you do it by showing that you are better than the other side. If you go down to their level you have really lost it,” Maleli said.
War crimes in Afghanistan
Troops from the United States and the United Kingdom, two coalition partners in Afghanistan and Australia, have also faced charges of extrajudicial killing.
A military court-martial convicted Gibbs of killing three Afghan civilians, illegally cutting off their corpses to keep a “souvenir” and planting people, as if they were Taliban fighters killed in a legitimate fire.
Five soldiers were convicted for various roles in the conspiracy. The military said six other soldiers, including one asking for photos with the dead Afghanistan, accepted the plea deal, the military said.
In a separate case, a British Royal Marine was convicted by a court-martial of killing an unarmed Taliban prisoner in 2011 and sentenced to life in prison.
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