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US warns war crime allegations could prevent work with Australia’s SAS

1st June, 2023 · admin · Leave a comment

Ariana: The United States has warned that allegations of war crimes against Australian soldiers in Afghanistan could prevent U.S. forces from working with Australia’s Special Air Service Regiment, Australia’s defense force chief said on Wednesday. Gen. Angus Campbell told a Senate committee that he received a letter from the U.S. defense attache in Canberra in

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Posted in Australia-Afghanistan Relations, Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Crime and Punishment, Human Rights, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: War Crime |
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Victims of 2010 Night Raid in Uruzgan Call for Compensation

30th May, 2023 · admin · Leave a comment

Tolo News: Family members of victims of a night raid that they say was conducted by Australian forces in 2010 in Kakrag, Uruzgan, said they should be paid compensation. Residents claim that “at least 60 people were killed, and 59 others were wounded” in a night raid by Australian forces in Kakrag village of Tarinkot

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Posted in Australia-Afghanistan Relations, Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Human Rights | Tags: Night Raids, Uruzgan, War Crime |
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Afghanistan: How Australia covered up alleged war crimes of SAS ‘heroes’

24th April, 2023 · admin

Middle East Eye: Justice delayed is justice denied, so goes the saying. In the case of alleged Australian war crimes committed in Afghanistan, it’s not as simple as red tape or the oft-tepid pace of bureaucracy. Rather it is the result of a campaign of politically expedient hero-worship, of command-shirking responsibility and investigators rubber-stamping a

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Posted in Australia-Afghanistan Relations, Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Crime and Punishment, Human Rights | Tags: War Crime |
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Fears Australian SAS soldier accused of war crimes in Afghanistan could be targeted by Muslim prisoners – as he asks the judge to be let out on bail

27th March, 2023 · admin

Daily Mail (UK): A former SAS soldier charged with a war crime while serving in Afghanistan has sought bail claiming his safety could be at risk from Islamic terrorists while behind bars. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested by the Australian Federal Police last Monday and has spent a week

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Posted in Australia-Afghanistan Relations, Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Crime and Punishment, Human Rights | Tags: War Crime |
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Opinion: Cricket’s response to Afghanistan has been woeful – the ECB and CA should withdraw from the ICC in protest

24th March, 2023 · admin

Wisden: The ICC have failed to support women in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s takeover, it’s time for the ECB and Cricket Australia to withdraw from the governing body completely – write Raf Nicholson and Megan Maurice. Sport can be a powerful tool in international diplomacy – it is now widely acknowledged that the sporting boycott

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Posted in Afghan Sports News, Afghan Women, Australia-Afghanistan Relations, Human Rights, Opinion/Editorial | Tags: Cricket |
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Australian former SAS soldier Oliver Schulz held over alleged war crime in Afghanistan

20th March, 2023 · admin

BBC News: A former Australian SAS soldier has been charged with murder, following an investigation into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan. Oliver Schulz, 41, is the first Australian serviceman or veteran to be charged with a war crime under Australian law. The offence carries a maximum sentence of life in jail. He was arrested on

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Posted in Australia-Afghanistan Relations, Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Crime and Punishment | Tags: War Crime |
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ACB reaches out to PCB for ODI series after Australia setback

15th January, 2023 · admin

Geo: Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) Sunday approached the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to play a series other than the decided ICC Super League games between the two countries after Australia decided to call off its series with the Afghan team. A reliable source in the PCBhas confirmed that it has received a request from the

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Posted in Afghan Sports News, Australia-Afghanistan Relations, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Afghanistan Cricket Board, Cricket |
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Afghan players call for politics to be kept out of sport

13th January, 2023 · admin

Ariana: Afghan cricketers reacted strongly to Australia’s decision to scrap the three-match ODI series scheduled for March in the UAE on Thursday, with a number of players threatening to boycott the Big Bash League (BBL). Australia said in a statement early Thursday they were calling off the series, citing the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s decision

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Posted in Afghan Sports News, Afghan Women, Australia-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Cricket, Life under Taliban rule, Rashid Khan, Taliban war on women |
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Australia Dumps Afghan Cricket Series Over Taliban Crackdown On Women

12th January, 2023 · admin

AFP: Australia pulled out of an upcoming one-day series against Afghanistan in the United Arab Emirates on January 12, citing Taliban moves to further restrict women’s rights. The men’s team were due to face their Afghan counterparts in three games in March following a tour to India. However, Cricket Australia said that, after talks with

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Posted in Afghan Sports News, Afghan Women, Australia-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Cricket |
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Court on Afghanistan told: Ex-Aussie commander said ‘I just want to kill’

26th February, 2022 · admin

Press TV February 26, 2022 A former Australian army commander accused of war crimes while serving in Afghanistan as part of a US-led occupation force told another soldier “I just want to kill [expletive],” a witness has said during a court hearing. Testifying in a federal court case in which the ex-commander, Ben Roberts-Smith, is

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Posted in Australia-Afghanistan Relations, Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Crime and Punishment, Human Rights | Tags: War Crime |
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