Originally Posted by
Training Risky
The problem with Afghanistan during Herrick is that the 'justice' system did not work! When I was in Kandahar 10 years ago, suspect insurgents ($10-a-day-Taliban - casual fighters) were picked up in raids, handed over to the Afghan National Police, held for a day, and then released due to lack of evidence, a bribe, lack of interest or a corrupt chief of police. Then released right back into the population like a conveyor belt.
Looks like this is another witch hunt against troops who were trying to sort the (r@p system out.
Let's hope these guys don't suffer the same fate as Sgt Alex Blackman, whose conviction from a badly-run biased court-martial system was eventually quashed.
Oh, give us a break. Handcuffing someone so they are defenceless then shooting them dead is MURDER, I don't care what situation someone is in. This was not 'the heat of battle' this was simply murder, nothing less, nothing more.
These people have sullied the name of the Commonwealth of Australia, which is the whole body politic, it's us....... on top of that they have sullied the reputation of their colleagues who do not partake in this sort of deadly crap.
There are ZERO excuses, those responsible, including the leadership if they knew about it, need to be put on trial in a civil court as we live in a country where the civil power is independent of and superior to the military power and then locked away for their crimes.
You can add the fascist politicians that ordered the raid of the broadcaster to try and cover this up AND that was when the media investigation thought there was one or two murders, not 39 as has been alleged.
Dutton and co cannot sidestep this one, they were clearly using the AFP to stop murder being exposed.