Police in Australia arrest the country's former soldier over allegations of murdering an Afghan while on deployment in Afghanistan
A 2020 inquiry revealed allegations of executions, body count competitions and torture by Australian forces.
The arrest on Monday comes more than two years after a damning internal investigation found 39 civilians and prisoners had been "unlawfully killed" by Australian elite special forces. According to ABC News, the charge “relates to the shooting death of Afghan man Dad Mohammad during an ADF raid in May 2012 in Uruzgan province in southern Afghanistan".
According to UN estimates, at least 100,000 Afghan civilians have died since former US President George W. Bush authorised the offensive in Afghanistan in October 2001.
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