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Senator Jacqui Lambie, left, and lawyer Glenn Kolomeitz speak to the media at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Tuesday, June 20, 2023.
THE International Criminal Court should investigate Australian top brass for war crimes in Afghanistan, an Australian senator says.
Independent Senator Jacqui Lambie, a former soldier, sent an Article 15 Communication (a mechanism for any individual to report suspected war crimes) to the court in The Hague today.
The court does not usually investigate cases where the responsible country has itself launched an investigation — the reason that in 2020 it dropped a case against Britain for war crimes in Iraq, despite finding a “reasonable basis” to believe that British soldiers had committed crimes including unlawful killings, torture and rape.
Outrage greeted Donald Trump’s suggestion earlier this year that Britain stayed off the front lines. But evidence suggests our forces were at times pulled from the most dangerous fighting — not by military failure, but by pressure at home, says IAN SINCLAIR
PATRICK CHURA reflects on the mass murder of civilians in wartime and his own visit, 10 years ago, to My Lai where US soldiers slaughtered over 500 men, women, children and infants
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
As the cover-ups collapse, IAN SINCLAIR looks at the shocking testimony from British forces who would ‘go in and shoot everyone sleeping there’ during night raids — illegal, systematic murder spawned by an illegal invasion