Former Australian commando faces Afghanistan war crimes investigation | Ageinvestigates
in 2019, and later became part of investigations by the military inspector-general into allegations of Afghan war crimes, known as the Brereton inquiry.
The decision of the special investigator to launch its own investigation and subject the ex-commando to a search warrant enabling it to seize his phone suggests the investigative body has generated its own leads, informants and fresh evidence and will not be governed by Brereton’s recommendations. Before this legal advice was completed, officials held grave concerns that a broad promise of immunity provided to hundreds of witnesses who appeared before Justice Brereton may haveThe revelation of the seizure of the commando’s phone is only the second time the secretive work of the special investigator has been made public since its inception in early 2021.
One of the men he allegedly confessed to murdering had “looked at him, [and] caused him to know that he was murdering an innocent man …[a] non-combatant who had just been caught up in the skirmish”.program on Wednesday broadcast fresh details about this alleged execution, having used a local Afghan journalist to track down witnesses from Qarabagh who observed the commandos’ mission.
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