PieFedAustralia’s most decorated soldier arrested over alleged war crimes
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Australia’s most decorated living soldier was arrested on Tuesday and will be charged with five counts of war crime murders relating to the killing of unarmed civilians while on deployment in Afghanistan.
The man, whom police identified as a 47-year-old former Australian Defence Force member and media named as Ben Roberts-Smith, was arrested at Sydney Airport on Tuesday morning.
He will be charged with five counts of war crimes in connection to the murder of five people in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2012, Australian Federal Police (AFP) said. The maximum penalty for each charge is life imprisonment.
Among the accusations reported were that Roberts-Smith had shot dead an unarmed Afghan teenager and kicked a handcuffed man off a cliff before ordering him to be shot dead.
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the guy who said that the murder of a 15 year old was the most beautiful thing he has ever seen?
i predict a hand slap punishment from the australians
“Anthony Besanko found that Roberts-Smith had
twice ordered unarmed men be shot dead to “blood” rookie soldiers, and was involved in the deaths of a handcuffed farmer he kicked off a cliff and a captured Taliban fighter whose prosthetic leg was taken as a trophy and later used by troops as a drinking vessel.”
The fact they’re looking into it at all is good news.
Americans would just do the classic “we investigated ourselves and decided we did nothing wrong” and leave it at that.
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Is this the one FriendlyJordies was talking about?
Think so yeah, next step would be to get mr McBride out of prison, but like hell that would ever happen unfortunately
Here’s his latest post on the matter
Wonder if we’ll ever charge Trump
Hahaha no the Dems already let him off last time.
cough Bullshit
“By the time it was introduced, 218 of the 222 House Democrats had signed on as cosponsors, assuring its passage.[54] Trump was impeached in a vote on January 13, 2021; ten Republicans, including House Republican Conference chairwoman Liz Cheney, joined all of the Democrats in supporting the article”
“U.S. Senate voted 57-43 to acquit Donald Trump of inciting the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection, falling short of the two-thirds majority (67 votes) required for conviction. While all 50 Democrats voted to convict, seven Republicans joined them, making it the most bipartisan impeachment conviction vote in U.S”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/06/19/fbi-resisted-opening-probe-into-trumps-role-jan-6-more-than-year/
What’s this?
I already proved you were full of shit. Try harder.
How tragic you got called on your lies.
Keep pretending, fantasy suits you.
So he got another decoration?
Remember that armies are there just to kill people.