Former Australian troops accused of killing civilians in Afghanistan will not face prosecution over two notorious alleged war crimes.
The ex-soldier suspected of committing one of the most notorious alleged war crimes involving Australian special forces in Afghanistan will never face justice after an elite investigative agency concluded its case was too weak to put before a jury.
The second alleged execution case that the OSI has decided not to prosecute is against another former soldier. It was exposed by the ABC and is known within special forces ranks as the “village idiot” killing. One witness, who spoke to this masthead on the condition of anonymity, said the OSI had told them the agency expected the Roberts-Smith case to drag through the criminal court system for years.
In media interviews and testimony to the OSI, Miller described how just before his death, Sardar was in his care suffering a non-fatal gunshot wound. He had been shot through the thigh by the SAS when they first landed in his village. “I wanted to tell them that I was sorry for what happened to their father and that I should have done more,” Miller said at the time.
Rothwell said the OSI was undertaking an unprecedented investigation effort in a nation with no contemporary experience probing and prosecuting war crimes.
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