Australian soldiers accused of mutilating corpses of Afghan insurgents!

Mehrushka

Prime Minister (20k+ posts)
Australian soldiers accused of mutilating corpses of Afghan insurgents

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Australia's military is investigating a unit of special forces soldiers accused of mutilating the corpses of one or more insurgents killed during operations in Afghanistan, Australian state television reported on Friday.

The incident, in which the hands were allegedly cut from the body of at least one of four militants killed, took place during an operation involving Afghan forces and elite Australian Defence Force (ADF) soldiers in the southeastern province of Zabul on April 28. The hands were taken back to the main Australian base at Tirin Kot, in nearby Uruzgan province, for identification and fingerprinting, the ABC said.

An investigator from the Australian military had previously lectured a group of special forces soldiers and told them it did not matter how fingerprints were taken, and that they could cut off the hands of the dead for fingerprinting, the ABC said.

Australia's military declined to confirm details of the incident, but said in a statement sent to Reuters that an investigation was underway into "an incident of potential misconduct" involving special forces soldiers.


"Following the mission, an incident of potential misconduct was raised through the Australian Defense Force's internal command chain," the military statement said. "The ADF takes any potential occurrence of misconduct by Australian personnel very seriously."

The mutilation of insurgent corpses by members of the NATO-led coalition in Afghanistan has previously triggered complaints and unrest and in the conflict-racked nation, although often news of incidents takes days to trigger protests. British troops were investigated in 2011 over accusations a soldier cut the fingers from a dead insurgent and kept them as trophies, while U.S. paratroops belonging to the Army's 82nd Airborne Division were in 2012 accused of posing for photos with the dismembered bodies of insurgent bombers.

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/...-mutilating-corpses-of-afghan-insurgents?lite
 

Humi

Prime Minister (20k+ posts)
well, mentally ill people are found everywhere....imagine how much hate a person has in their heart if they like to mutilate a dead body!
 

amir_ali

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
First of all Insurgent is the Australian thug here and after that I ve heard that mutilated corpses are found in Pakistan as well, especially Baluchistan area, so we can claim that we are not 2nd to at least the Kangaroos in this regards.
 

KhanHaripur

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
First of all Insurgent is the Australian thug here and after that I ve heard that mutilated corpses are found in Pakistan as well, especially Baluchistan area, so we can claim that we are not 2nd to at least the Kangaroos in this regards.
Forget about dead bodies our soo called muslim army dont even spare the ELDERS & WOMEN

@Huma
 

Pukaar

Senator (1k+ posts)
Forget about dead bodies our soo called muslim army dont even spare the ELDERS & WOMEN

@Huma

I am sure those Baluchis would do the same if they get their hands on the soldiers. Since they are both Muslims, therefore the problem is with the Islam they follow.
 

Imranpak

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
Bharati soldiers would have raped the dead people(cry) (cry). Australians are part of NATO occupational forces so such things should not come as a surprise.
 

miafridi

Prime Minister (20k+ posts)
Wars make people insane, so there shouldn't be anything unexpected in all this. The fact is it must have been happening everywhere, only few cases gets reported.