{"id":21945,"date":"2024-07-22T11:09:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T11:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=21945"},"modified":"2024-07-22T11:10:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T11:10:45","slug":"survivors-of-war-crimes-by-australian-forces-demand-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/07\/survivors-of-war-crimes-by-australian-forces-demand-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Survivors of &#8216;war crimes by Australian forces&#8217; demand justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; Survivors of the families who lost members in Australian military airstrikes over the past few years are demanding justice, claiming Australian forces attacked their homes, resulting in casualties.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nabi, a resident of Chora district in Uruzgan, said that six members of his family were killed and three wounded due to Australian airstrikes. &#8220;Australian aircraft bombed our house; as a result, our home was destroyed and six family members were killed, with three others injured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shamsullah, another resident of the district, recounted how several of his family members were killed or wounded in an Australian military attack on their home 16 years ago. He said, &#8220;Australian forces have committed horrific atrocities against our family; they are criminals and murderers who must be brought to trial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Families of victims of war crimes &#8216;perpetrated by the Australian military&#8217; are calling on that government to prosecute soldiers responsible for unjustified killings of their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, the Australian government have announced they are reviewing a compensation scheme for families in Afghanistan whose members were unlawfully killed by the soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads: &#8220;We are in the process of establishing a compensation scheme for families affected by Australian war crimes in Afghanistan, which will include those who were killed or injured, and a lawyer will be appointed to investigate these claims.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, between 2005 to 2016, at least 39 Afghan civilians were unlawfully killed by Australian forces without justification.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2001, Australia deployed approximately 400 troops as part of international forces in Afghanistan, mainly stationed in Uruzgan.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left\"><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; Survivors of the families who lost members in Australian military airstrikes over the past few years are demanding justice, claiming Australian forces attacked their homes, resulting in casualties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":21946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,978,16,194,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-security","category-report","category-world","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":57,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21956,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21945\/revisions\/21956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}