{"id":24905,"date":"2020-11-19T10:20:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T01:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2020\/nov\/19\/australian-soldiers-sas-war-crimes-afghanistan-australia-special-forces-inquiry-brereton-report-released-latest-live-updates"},"modified":"2020-11-19T12:45:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T03:45:34","slug":"australian-special-forces-afghanistan-war-crimes-inquiry-report-released-latest-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24905","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan war crimes inquiry report into Australian special forces released \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian defence force releases long-awaited Brereton report into allegations SAS committed war crimes in Afghanistan from 2006 to 2016. This blog is now closed<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/nov\/19\/australian-special-forces-involved-in-of-39-afghan-civilians-war-crimes-report-alleges\">Full report: Australian special forces involved in murder of 39 Afghan civilians, war crimes report alleges<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-11-19T03:18:07.106Z\">3.18am <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>That is where I will leave things for now. You can find the full story on the release of the Brereton report by my colleague <strong>Christopher Knaus<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/nov\/19\/australian-special-forces-involved-in-of-39-afghan-civilians-war-crimes-report-alleges\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the key findings:<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-11-19T02:46:56.123Z\">2.46am <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Labor\u2019s defence spokesman, <strong>Richard Marles<\/strong>, has told reporters in Melbourne the findings are \u201cvery sad\u201d and \u201cshameful\u201d and it is \u201ca difficult moment for Australia\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>His thoughts were with the victims and their families.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2020\/nov\/19\/australian-soldiers-sas-war-crimes-afghanistan-australia-special-forces-inquiry-brereton-report-released-latest-live-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian defence force releases long-awaited Brereton report into allegations SAS committed war crimes in Afghanistan from 2006 to 2016. This blog is now closedFull report: Australian special forces involved in murder of 39 Afghan civilians, war crim&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,43,1585,1759,86,61,83,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-australian-military","category-brereton-report","category-law","category-south-and-central-asia","category-war-crimes","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24923,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905\/revisions\/24923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}