Police suspected the former Australian soldier-the Order of the fact that he went through evidence of military crimes in his own garden. It is reported by the British newspaper The Guardian.
We are talking about Benjamin Roberts-Smith, which in 2011 was awarded the Higher Military Award – the Cross of Victoria. Police suspects that Roberts Smith burned in the backyard children’s lunch box with a USB flash drive inside. The device allegedly stored classified data, including reports of the special forces mission in South Afghanistan, as well as video and photographs made by drones.
In addition, according to the investigators, Roberts-Smith threatened people who were going to give testimony against him in the case of war crimes. The former soldier himself denies all the charges.
previously became known that the elite military Australia killed Afghans at the initiation ceremony to special forces. The report of the representative of the Ministry of Defense of Major General Justice Floor Brereton (Paul Brereton) notes that in the period from 2009 to 2013 the commanders of the patrols were ordered to kill Afghans to kill Afghans so that they were “baptized by blood”. The victims were prisoners of war, peasants and civilians.
During only three weeks after the publication of the outlining report, nine Australian soldiers committed suicide. It was noted that such a number of soldiers committed suicide for such a short period of time is unprecedented in the newest military history of Australia. At the same time, it was emphasized that there is no evidence that nine late soldiers had any attitude towards alleged war crimes documented in the report.