Newspaper front pages in Australia on 2 June reporting the outcome of the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial “It is only recently that this country has given serious attention to the issue of war crimes allegedly committed by our forces,” Special Investigator and former judge Mark Weinberg told a Melbourne audience in March this year.
“So far as I am aware, few if any Australian servicemen have ever been convicted by an Australian court, or military tribunal of any kind, of any offence that could conceivably be characterised as a serious war crime.”
And those words remain true, even after a ruling […]
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