Highly decorated veteran Ben Roberts-Smith had sued for defamation after newspapers reported he had murdered civilians in Afghanistan.
Supporters of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange have held a demonstration in Australia. The event follows a diplomatic push by Canberra for his release.
Al Jazeera’s David Landy reports.
– Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe
– Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish
– Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera
– Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/
@AljazeeraEnglish
#Aljazeeraenglish
#News
#Australia
#Afghanistan
#JulianAssange
Wtf had they to do there
Australia NZ are controlled by uk old family lords military chiefs mi5 mi6 masters of the group the evil 1s who control humanity
Execution of unarmed peoples.
Alleged until proven in another court this was a case against the media.
They can kill anybody?…who give them rights? Their pagan Christian terrorist gods?
Everywhere it’s the same , the army ,the police and the entire system is guilty of crime against its own citizens :-/
Spineless obeying clones CON covid how many did they force beat up arrest help murder torture leave sick poison jabs swabs millions
He’s a killer. Screw him and screw his country.
7 Porque já o mistério da injustiça opera; somente há um que, agora, resiste até que do meio seja tirado; 8 e, então, será revelado o iníquo, a quem o Senhor desfará pelo assopro da sua boca e aniquilará pelo😅
Common salma, there’s got to be some place this isn’t happening. Its an indisputable fact it happens less in the west, you should pack your bags and head to the middle east or communist China.
as an Aussie this is so shameful….he needs to be stripped of all his medals and face his war crimes in a court
@Clem Fandangoit’s a lot of sheep in Australia, repeating every thing what the news said!
No worries, Allah SWT will meet us all.. the only judge ALLAHU AKBAR ☝️
@Tania tsaregorodtseva Yes & it’s cognitive dissonance of the entire nation state of AU to not look in the mirror & take responsibility for their crimes. Not the first time AU has done this. Scapegoats of an Empire writer by George Written, only one of three to avoid the firing squad in 1902, During the Boar War.
@Clem Fandango Do you have something against Australia? If we are to do as you say, putting everything AU citizens on trail then we should do the same for every other country. Everyone on Earth will be on trail. Australia has done the right by actually taking this case seriously and I’m sure Justice will be served to the Afghanistan victims and families. As a matter of why Australia troops were in Afghanistan, it’s a matter of alliance and politics. Also clearly you are not an Afghan, I don’t know why this has anything to do with you.
@Clem Fandango Also looking at how recently your account has been created, you are most liking a member 50c army funded by CCP. 😂😂
If you want Peace practice Justice,otherwise the horrors will be inflicted on you by your own.Inshallah
A very rare win for the Australian court system
divert fro CON covid and every australian politician judge police officer msm not being jailed for life and spineless military
What did they win other than destroying the morale of millions of soldiers.
He is the tip of the iceberg. All soldiers who were stationed in Afghanstan killed and murdered thousands of unarmed civilians. They were killing civilians for fun like hunting games. What a shameful democracy.
@Mikky Bozzy You wouldn’t have that problem, if you weren’t the agressor, invading Afghanistan…
@Mikky Bozzy the fact that your boots were in Afghanistan as invanders already made you a target. You were a terrorist to them and rightly so.
@M A I agree with you 100%. Countries should be left alone to deal with thier own in house problems
@Shaan احمد الهاشمي what I think is that usa shouldn’t have even been ther in the first place.
Don’t forget the child rape capital, Bhagram Airbase.
I am drawing the attention of my respected journalist brothers of Al Jazeera to convey my statement to the United Nations and the President of America and to the European Union. In Bangladesh, we ordinary people cannot vote. done
If ICJ investigate fairly and wisely the half of nato forces will be charged for war crimes especially Us forces
Only half we know most
So why don’t they do
@Haneef Sheikh You should know why….
briish people always a war criminals and a war mongers
There is no justice. Everybody play around with weak poor people. How he walk he even not feel guilty what he have done.
As an Australian it is well done the guy is a psychopath he doesn’t know he is a psychopath
Anti social disorder that makes him is thinking he’s normal; No remorse for what he has done.
@Wood Stalon AU has no remorse in sending him to Afghanistan. that is the real problem here, not one guy.
He’s an sas soldier numb nut thats how they are trained and encouraged to fight.
Note his ultimate superiors walk away with clean hands. As for the taliban they are no choirboys. 9/11 did happen and thousands died that day.
@Wood Stalon He’s White! Ofc he wouldn’t do anything wrong except due to mental disorders.
Whites are our civilised masters, right?
@Wood Stalon Australia the land of Blood
Where is ICC?
AFGHAN BROTHER 🇦🇫🇨🇨🇧🇦🐺⚜️☪️🌙🖤💚🤍📿
AUSTRALIA MAD BECAUSE THEY LOST ALSO EVERY WAR
Yet no free press about con vid and why every Australian politician judge police are not jailed for life
According to leaked Pentagon papers ,during a five month period in 2013, 90% of those killed by US drone strikes in NE Afghanistan were unintended targets. Otherwise known as civilians. As if to sign off their killing mission, the day after US officially abandoned Kabul, their last drone strike wiped out an entire 10 member Afghan family. An act of vengeance for the suicide bombing in Kabul airport that killed 13 marines. The family was wrongly identified as terrorists. Since these victims were considered as collateral damage no further action need to be taken.
Hope the karma gets him for all the cruelty he had committed
Western War criminals MUST be punished.
Eastern one’s also, wrong is wrong no matter what skin you ware.
@R A Clark Western is always pointing the finger to Eastern and accuse them of war crimes and human rights abuses when we have our hands full of blood of thousand of innocent civilians and nobody was ever been punished for that.
@Eduardo Reyes I agree they are hypocrites, don’t have to convince me on that matter.
this is Just one among many atrocity done by the West and there are many many more which we don’t know even
BRAVO!
He lost fair dinkum
He was a coward because he killed civilians. unarmed, that really brought shame to the Australian army, he was a coward, he was a coward
All the Army Generals and most of the army men in Pakistan commit such crimes on regularly in pretext of so called security ( Mafia security of property dealers)….
But no one has yet received justice…..
It’s heart breaking watching some of the videos they recorded/filmed during their campaign of terror murdering innocent Afghans. Only psychopaths do that!
how many people did he murder for bush and blair??
Unlawful killing.. where is the lawful killing than? Which form killing is lawful u murderous.
Anglo-Saxon countries’ soldiers killing foreign people illegally is not guilty.
Afghanistan is a very difficult place to know who is friendly and who isn’t. One minute an Afghan is making you tea, the next he’s blowing you up. You can’t trust anyone in Afghanistan. That’s why it’s hard to maintain peace ther
Why were they even there? The fact is that they shouldn’t have been there at all. Secondly how can you justify murder based on well anyone could kill us. So if you go to a bad neighborhood you’re free to kill everyone there?
@WaqManime they deployed because as you probably know, Australia does whatever usa and uk tell em to do. Pretty much bad neighbourhood means kill whoever you think is a threat. Sad sad world
If it happened in Palestine, the Australian court and newspapers will be called as anti semitic. it does not matter whatever thing someone do against the Palestinians.
So why he is not charged for war crimes by the Australian authorities who like to talk about human rights.
All those who were randomly being killed in Afghanistan are civilians women and children.
This guy is one of thousands who served in Afghanistan to kill ordinary people
Real terrorism
He looks like a stereotypical war criminal. I hope this man faces a true criminal organisation
Its very easy to judge a man but very hard to walk in his shoes. Smith is a great man who would have been exposed to some horrible things. Such as Afgani men raping little boys and civilians helping the Taliban against soldiers and settling up road side bombs. We have no right to judge him. He is a great Australian, and ch9 and ABC are disgraceful organisations. Check there record and you will find they are revolting organisations. The majority of Australians support Ben all the way. GOD BLESS HIM
Good on you for standing with an man who killed an innocent civilian by throwing him off a cliff. Well done mate, you’re what Australia is made of 👍🏼 🇦🇺
GOD doesn’t BLESS murderers of women, children, old people, keep GOD out of it.!!! I fill sorry for you trying to justify what is unjustifiable.
You have a flag of a failed nation talking about a colonial nation
absolutely ashamed of how this hero was treated , war is war , those hacks wrote the story for ulterior reasons , I am so worried about our hero , I pray we dont wake up with nad news re his welfare. shame on our media
Congo guys
I dont know when we will get justice
Oh lord jesus help us
Im son of a soldier.
They told us that they are not responsible after transferring salaries or pension to army account,
Whether it is getting utilize for their little ones or widows/wives
So cruel. Ohh lord jesus help us
I never liked him. In saying that… Glory to Ukraine 🔱 Glory to the heroes. Russians will try to link this to their war, saying we are all evil. No this 1 guy was a bad apple. Deal with it Vatnik
Entire invasion was unlawful and I’m pretty sure that many other soldiers has done the some more or less. When you teach these soldiers that the inhabitants of the country are subhuman before sending them to that country, then this behaviour is expected from them.
The media just found out. They would be still doing it now if they were in the country. I hope the West leaves Afghanistan alone so they can build their country
That Australian elite soldier had bosses who gave him orders and the country he is serving are all criminals. Its not one person who creates these killing machines.
No excuse to kill civilians indiscriminately. He is personally liable.
He is a scapegoat.
They should of stopped him the second he betrayed our country by representing us as killers of unarmed civilians… .. they may not of been innocent though but we don’t kill or harm unarmed prisoners . I tell you why exactly because of history as convicts . We do not have the death penalty and he is not thejudge😢 we feel betrayed.
He was reported by Australian soldiers & pursued by the Australian media & courts.
Prayers for the Afghans .
ALLAHU AKBAR ☝️
When is his ICC hearing starting 🤔🤔
yeah he lost the case that he raised for defamation but that doesnt mean they would judge him for the crime , someone must avenge the afghan innocent victims and take down ben roberts out smith for justice and redemption
He needs to hung for his crimes !
Why is an Australian court handling a war crime?
Where’s the ICC?
No honor, no integrity. Criminals like that missed the bigger picture of what being a soldier is all about. Maybe how they were trained contributes their criminality, but either way that’s no leader or soldier I would want in my force and he should face consequences.
Respect for the Australian justice system. In the US, this kind of murderer soldiers would be called a hero for killing innocent people, but Australian media sided with the victims… a strong warning to any future war criminals…. don’t kill innocent people wearing our national arm dress. I wish many countries would do the same.
This life is a test life you will be JUDGED after you die and it will be so painful we only trust ALLAH swt for justice this world dont have any justice killing 2+ humans punishment maximum getting his 1 life 2+ not equal to 1 so you will be punished at afterlife how many times you killed and Justice will be served. Imagine Hitler million+ times he will be die in hellfire thats why ISLAM is the TRUTH and ALLAH is the MOST JUST Allahuakbar ☝️ Alhamdulillah for Islam ☪️
The sheer murder and pillage the white race has caused. Native americans.. decimated. Africans… torn from their homes forced to slave. Countlesss killed. South america… pillaged. India.. reduced to poverty. South east Asia… plundered for wealth. China… reduced to nothing. Australia… aboriginals gutted.
And now this… pushed off a poor farmer off a cliff. Why?
Not sure about this. Shouldn’t Australia itself be on trial for a war crimes for showing up on Afghanistan soil to begin with? AU was not attacked on 911. Didn’t AU not learn it’s lesson from Vietnam whereby the US suckered them into an illegal & losing war? as was the case again for Afghanistan. Maybe the AU media should start, reporting (defaming) it’s policey makers putting their country into harms way under false pretenses.
What’s going on if he was guilty then he would be tried so why is this happening
They killed 4.5 million people and the real numbers are much higher. Almost all of those killing are war crimes. There are a lot more criminals responsible for these crimes. From low level soldiers to gneeals, presidents, doctors (running torture camps) to media houses running propoganda and lies, banks,.business funding and making money out of killings to weapon manufacturers.
These soldiers shouldn’t be facing these penalties it is the governments that sent them there should be standing infront the courts. Soldiers are paid to shoot n take orders
So is he going jail or not and is he classified as a terrorist???
Well what do you expect from bogus, I blame John Howard for sending them there in the first
Our Lord! You will certainly gather all humanity for the ˹promised˺ Day—about which there is no doubt. Surely Allah does not break His promise.” -holy qur’an 3:9
You can dismiss all you want in this world, but you can never escape the judgment of Allah Almighty. Let’s see if your case gets dismissed in the afterlife.
Well done australia
*Head Of State Australia, still King UK🇬🇧*
And?
Shame on USA, West and NATO.
Is he also in Ukraine 😂😂
Afghans are Warriors.
Long live the Taliban
طالبان زندہ باد
Saying something is proven on a balance of probabilities means that it is more likely than not to have occurred. It means that it is probable, i.e., the probability that some event happens is more than 50%. So mathematically proof on a balance of probabilities is 50.1% likelihood of something having occurred.
This is what they are saying, that its probable he killed civilians. They have no proof, no witnesses, etc. This is laughable.
Let us not forget NATO crimes in Afghanistan
Couldn’t imagine what kind of trauma a soldier must go through during their career. They’re all there to kill eachother and win. To pick and choose which murderer is worse than another seems ridiculous and trivial to me. A lot of people seem potentially very naively sure of themselves about how they’d react in the same situations.
this is the type of attitude will make another cilvilian pick up ak 47 and fight the cause.
Everybody need to stand before God it’s the final judgement ….
Australi is a prison island
Quite disgusting from the bits i heard. Last week a 95yr old woman in a walking frame was tazered by police…first in chest then in back…shes dead. All in australia. Real heroes.
International laws only apply for non western nations
America war criminal
Sonia: O imbecil me dopava e se passava por jesus.
7 Porque já o mistério da injustiça opera; somente há um que, agora, resiste até que do meio seja tirado; 8 e, então, será revelado o iníquo, a quem o Senhor desfará pelo assopro da sua boca e aniquilará pelo
Now Talibans rule Afghanistan , this tall and ugly beast lost on every front
Think of the other men who served. They had to remain silent throughout this episode. Is this finally Australia’s coming of age? The myth of the Digger had run for so long. War is a terrible business. We are yet to hear about the personal disasters that affect Ukraine.
Australian news corrupt 100% none of channel has a comments ON on YouTube! They said what they like..
His a living legend and always will be.
With official court records describing him as a verified war criminal…
@MrSlanderer PS it was a deforestation case, not criminal. Basically a kangaroo court regarding burdens of proof.
Allah SWT the only judge will see you soon dont worry bout that
ALLAHU AKBAR ☝️
A coward.. The worse is that criminal at the moment he is in Bali enjoying the sunshine.. no remorse.. he is a war criminal and needed to brought to Justice. I can believe he tried to clear his dirty work .. thank you Mr judge for your bravery
A lot of racism in Australia… the funny thinks the real Australians are the Aboriginal. Criminals sent from Liverpool prisons calling themselves Australians. Stop
The whole country of Australia is a War Criminal for taking part in every single illegal war their master Daddy USA starts. Australia like Japan should not be allowed to maintain and army with the ability to wage war and only a self defense force.
You think American, Canadian, British, and other European soldiers didn’t do the same?? The Aussies just got caught 😂😂😂
No worries though the Afghans will have their day in court, that’s why there’s something called Judgement Day.
Imagine laughing off innocent Afghan deaths, and using them as fodder for your own self-absorbed political statement.
Brave SAS soldiers 🇦🇺🇦🇺who came forward as witnesses should be respected and protected. Ben was also a brave soldier but he showed no respect for Australian or international law while he was dealing with the lives of poor civilians under his custody. No excuses for being a bully or a criminal.
A lot of the broader criticism against Australia conveniently ignores that it was Australian soldiers who reported his crimes.
Why doesn’t he accept his evil deeds
Finally justice has been served
Good job … we consider war criminals as traitors to our country . Australian….
Australia. The lapdog of the US. Same old. Same old.😮
they should extradite him to afganistan
This was not an Australian war. Why did they get into this mess.
There is Taliban military base in kugang for attacking Australia.