Ben Roberts Smith first Afghan witness tells court he saw ‘a big soldier’ kick his uncle off a cliff
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Evidence given via video link from Kabul concerned a key allegation that the former soldier murdered handcuffed man
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“A big soldier”, an Australian SAS trooper, kicked a handcuffed Afghan villager down a steep embankment, before the man’s body was later seen being dragged into an orchard, a court has heard in a pivotal day of evidence in Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation trial.
The first Afghan witness in the trial, Mohammed Hanifa Fatih, appeared by video link from Kabul. He told the federal court he and his uncle Ali Jan were captured and handcuffed by Australian troops in the village of Darwan on 11 September 2012. He said he saw Ali Jan being kicked down a steep embankment, and his body was later found near an orchard. Continue reading...
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