Former human rights commissioner Chris Sidoti says the Australian government was sent a list of 90 staff members considered to be at grave risk from the Taliban because of their work investigating war atrocities. The plea went unanswered
Former human rights commissioner Chris Sidoti has accused the Australian government of ignoring pleas from Afghanistan’s key human rights body to offer protection to some of its members, lashing Australia’s handling of the withdrawal from the country as “disastrous mismanagement”.
Australian officials work with members of the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment ready combat team to process evacuees at Hamid Karzai International Airport.But Mr Sidoti says the AIHRC chairperson sent the Australian government a list of 90 staff members considered to be at grave risk from the Taliban because of their work investigating atrocities, especially relating to women and children, before the fall of Kabul.
Mr Sidoti said the Morrison government’s “disastrous mismanagement” of the defeat in Afghanistan brings “deep dishonour on us all”. “It will cost lives, perhaps thousands of lives”.He called for a judicial inquiry into “what went wrong”, including the decision to close the embassy in Kabul in late May.
The human rights lawyer said even if allegations of murder against special forces are correct, they would be “insignificant compared with the grievous damage the Morrison government has caused to people in Afghanistan and indeed to Australia’s reputation and its strategic interests in the region”.
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