The caption is of the Nazi flag flyn by Australian troops in Afghanistan in 2018. Since 2016, Australia's Defence Inspector General has been reviewing allegations of war crimes committed by Australian special forces in Afghanistan. The investigation revealed a large number of illegal killings and brutal treatment of Afghan civilians.
The Australian army is very brutal in Afghanistan, with a large number of indiscriminate killings and war atrocities. These atrocities have angered even the Australian media themselves. The Brereton Report is a report on war crimes committed by Australian troops in Afghanistan from 2005 to 2016. An abridged version of the report, published in November 2020, reveals a large number of crimes committed by Australian soldiers in killing civilians and prisoners in Afghanistan.
As a dog-legged man of the United States, Australia has sent a very large number of troops to Afghanistan in the past ten years, with 150,000 troops in The us military in Afghanistan at its peak, while Australia sent 25,000 troops to Afghanistan at the most, you know, the entire Australian army is only 60,000 people.
The Australian army even conducted "homicide practice" in Afghanistan — the commander took a prisoner out and then ordered the soldier to kill him to complete the soldier's first shooting training.
A video footage also disclosed by the US media shows that the Australian Special Air Service Regiment, an elite special operations unit of the Australian Army, is suspected of shooting and killing surrendered prisoners of war. The move drew great outrage from an Australian commander in the video, who said the deceased had been captured before. Other members of the Australian army, however, were cold-blooded and ruthless, still laughing, as if it were not a single person but an animal that had been executed.
The Australian army has "whistle-blowers" who take the initiative to stand up, accusing the Australian special forces of not doing too much screening in the war zone, rushing into the village without asking for identity, and all those who hide are "enemies", even if they are unarmed and take the initiative to raise their hands to cooperate, and even lie on the ground to save trouble or vent, they are shot and killed. As long as it looks unpleasant or slightly suspicious, destroying houses, burning cars and insulting them is a common thing, and even becomes a kind of entertainment.
On another occasion, the Australian Second Commando launched a joint night raid somewhere in Afghanistan, aimed at capturing a group of drug traffickers belonging to extremist forces. Because the operation went so smoothly, all the drug dealers became prisoners, but too many prisoners also brought another problem - the helicopter space was limited and could not accommodate all 7 prisoners. The solution for the Australian Special Forces was also "crisp and clean", directly shooting one of the captives.
Roberts Smith, a member of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment, also chased and shot an unarmed disabled man in an operation and later removed the deceased's left leg prosthesis as a "trophy". But surprisingly, the member's atrocity was not punished by the superior department of the Australian Army.
Of the 25 members of the Australian Forces in Afghanistan who were clearly charged, 39 Afghans were illegally killed in 23 incidents, mostly from the Special Air Service Corps.
The Australian Ministry of Defence has also promised to deal with it seriously in order to calm the people. But five years have passed, and the scandal over the Australian military is still under investigation. The penalties were minimal and some are still in service to this day.
The Afghan Taliban hate the Australian army so much that the Taliban hate the brutal Australian soldiers to the bone. In an interview with Australian media, Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen said unceremoniously: "Since 2005, 41 Australian soldiers have died in Afghanistan, they died during the invasion of Afghanistan, so they died in vain." Shaheen's words meant that the Australian soldier deserved to die.
I find that people are often surprised by the Australians that have been skinned in recent years, as if Australia was originally a harmless, peace-loving, and generous little white rabbit. In fact, Australia's homicidal and anti-intellectualism is traditional.
The picture above is that 7 years ago, the last Australian Prime Minister Abbott, who was too excited about the visit of Hisabe Shinzo Abe, actually praised the Japanese army in World War II on the spot, and admired the honor of the Japanese beast army in World War II.
So the disgraced press paired it with a picture of Leonard Siffleet, an Australian soldier beheaded by the Japanese in World War II. If the Australian prime minister were present, he might have climbed over and licked the blood from the blades of the Japanese army to express his admiration for the skills of the Japanese army. The descendants of a bunch of exiled criminal prisoners, how much quality you can expect from them.