Another account describes allegations that two "14-year-old boys suspected of being Taliban sympathisers had their throats slit … the bodies were bagged and thrown into a nearby river".
https://amp.theage.com.au/national/blood-lust-killings-cover-ups-report-describes-australia-s-abu-ghraib-moment-20201027-p5692v.html?__twitter_impression=true
"He mentioned that the Afghan interpreter they worked with kept reporting that Australian SF were executing farmers, but no one ever followed anything up."
"Any investigation into alleged misconduct was ‘set up' to find the person not guilty," one insider claimed
One special forces informant is recorded as telling Dr Crompvoets: "Whatever we do, though, I can tell you the Brits and the US are far, far worse. I've watched our young guys stand by and hero worship what they were doing, salivating at how the US were torturing people."
One example provided by insiders to Dr Crompvoets was the ease with which unarmed Afghans could be killed while running away from soldiers by being labelled in post-operational reports as "squirters" – unarmed Afghans seen running away from coalition forces.
Reports justifying the killing of these Afghans invariably stated the squirters were "running away from us to their weapons caches".
I don't know how commanders believed reports that insurgents just see special forces surround their village before they "run" to their "cache of weapons".
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