{"id":24926,"date":"2020-11-19T11:52:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T02:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/nov\/19\/a-long-time-for-justice-afghans-wait-for-australia-to-right-the-wrongs-of-its-war"},"modified":"2020-11-19T11:52:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T02:52:48","slug":"a-long-time-for-justice-afghans-wait-for-australia-to-right-the-wrongs-of-its-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24926","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A long time for justice&#8217;: Afghans wait for Australia to right the wrongs of its war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a human rights worker in Uruzgan, Abdul Ghafar Stanikzai tried to help distraught families seeking answers about their dead sons. He\u2019d given up hope they\u2019d ever get them <\/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\"> Australian special forces involved in murder of 39 Afghan civilians, war crimes report alleges<\/a><\/li>\n<li><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\">Australian special forces Afghanistan war crimes inquiry report released \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dr Abdul Ghafar Stanikzai\u2019s dusty office in downtown Tarin Kowt in Uruzgan was often a place of misery during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/australian-military\">Australian military<\/a>\u2019s deployment to the province.<\/p>\n<p>A procession of distressed relatives and elders would troop into his tiny room to sit cross-legged on the red carpet and beg the human rights program manager for news of their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/nov\/19\/a-long-time-for-justice-afghans-wait-for-australia-to-right-the-wrongs-of-its-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a human rights worker in Uruzgan, Abdul Ghafar Stanikzai tried to help distraught families seeking answers about their dead sons. He\u2019d given up hope they\u2019d ever get them  Australian special forces involved in murder of 39 Afghan civilians, war crime&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1707,"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":[46,43,1585,1759,53,61,83,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-australian-military","category-brereton-report","category-human-rights","category-south-and-central-asia","category-war-crimes","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24926","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\/1707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24927,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24926\/revisions\/24927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}