Australia’s armed forces intend to conduct reforms to restore the reputation of the army after the ritual killings committed in Afghanistan. This is reported to the newspaper The West Australian, with reference to the commander of the Australian Armed Forces, General Angus Campbell.
According to General, the Australian army is waiting for a long four-year reform. The agency intends to eliminate “errors” in the organization and subordination. Comprehensive changes will be implemented until 2025 and will affect both the general organizational mechanisms of the ministry and a set of personnel.
Control over the execution of reform will be charged with the Supreme Officer’s composition of the Australian Army, which will be personal responsibility for its implementation. “So we will ensure compliance with high professional standards (…) and drawn to the responsibility of those who are guilty of past failures and offenses,” Campbell emphasized.
In 2020, Major General Justice Paul Brereton prepared a report on the crimes of Australian special forces in the period from 2009 to 2013. Commanders of the patrols were ordered to kill Afghans to kill Afghans so that they thus were “baptized with blood.” The investigation has shown that the servicemen of the Australian contingent from the SAS units (special regiment of the flight service) are guilty of murder at least 39 Afghans outside the battlefield. These charges are built on the testimony of 400 witnesses.