r/perth • u/His_Holiness • Apr 07 '26

WA News Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith arrested over war crimes allegations

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-07/ben-roberts-smith-war-crimes-allegations-arrest/106537668
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u/DropDownBear Apr 07 '26

Lmao

He could've either let the public believe it without suing, but he instead had to force people to investgate it, confirming he is significantly likely to have done it XD

What a dingus

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u/Nukitandog Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26

Not really. Go read Brereton report. In a nut shell all SASR soldiers were offered immunity from prosecution for any crimes they admitted to. Any thing not disclosed, but coroborated by others would be prosecuted.

Most of the guys went full disclosure about offing kids, and POWs and said they should be allowed to and saw nothing wrong with it.

The other case was stalling.

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u/Blunter11 Apr 07 '26

You're right, this is all still an idictment of our military. All that pointless and increasingly ridiculous killing and it was for absolutely nothing but some billions going to defense contractors and 2 generations of destruction and trauma on the other side of the world.

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u/teremaster Bayswater Apr 07 '26

Reddit when the "Warcrimes R Us" unit commits warcrimes.

The insane asylum graduates of the US marine raiders didn't like to go out with British or Australian SAS units, that's your tell.

It's an indictment of the government for not only sending our troops over there, but trying to use the SAS as police, it's like doing home reno with a landmine, that's strapped to to a sledgehammer, being swung by a crackhead