Ben Roberts-Smith found guilty of war crimes defamation.
TL;DR
Ben Roberts-Smith, Australia's most-decorated living soldier, has lost a defamation case against three newspapers that accused him of war crimes in Afghanistan. The civil trial was the first time a court has assessed accusations of war crimes by Australian forces. A judge said four of the six murder allegations - all denied by the soldier - were substantially true. The case comes three years after a landmark report found credible evidence that Australian forces had unlawfully killed 39 civilians and prisoners in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2013.
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