How many of our WWI and WWII veterans are we to dig up and remove their medals and unit citations? The defense and political elite failed to inform us killing of listed insurgents unarmed and/or not demonstrating utilization of lethal force was approved policy for Australian soldiers on the ground.
“"Afghanistan was one of the most difficult conflicts imaginable. Our people didn’t know who the enemy was: the farmer by day could be a Taliban terrorist by night. “Our people were faced by terrible gut-wrenching decisions; people were killed and others were savagely wounded; people buried their friends. And the politicians and generals who sent them to fight took no responsibility whatsoever for events on the ground.”" Australian soldiers ‘thrown under the bus’ over alleged Afghanistan war crimes, SAS body says , Story by Daniel Hurst and Ben Doherty, 16-52024 "The Taliban drew from their higher echelons to fill the top posts, with an associate of founder Mullah Omar named as prime minister, and an interior minister who is on a US list of wanted terrorists." Taliban announce interim government for Afghanistan, with the spoils going to old guard , ABC, 8-9-2021 "KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Reminiscent of their previous harsh rule in the 1990s, the Taliban ha