Australia’s most decorated living soldier arrested over alleged Afghan war crimes

Ben Roberts-Smith, Australia’s most decorated living soldier, was arrested at Sydney Airport and charged with five counts of war-crime murder over the killing of unarmed Afghan civilians while deployed in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2012 https://t.co/Hmxo47kS9N pic.twitter.com/xbFmENELPU

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Ben Roberts-Smith, Australia’s most decorated living soldier, was arrested at Sydney Airport and charged with five counts of war-crime murder over the killing of unarmed Afghan civilians while deployed in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2012.

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