Australia, UK, US wars kill, but there’s hope

Where are our “protectors” of human rights... former associate justice Antonio Carpio, former Foreign Affairs secretary Albert del Rosario, Maria Ressa of Rappler, Professors Richard Heydarian and Jay Batongbacal, Sen. Risa Hontiveros, and other “nationalists” when Western countries are at issue?

Last week, investigations confirmed that it had been a practice over the years for Australian elite SAS commandos deployed to Afghanistan to “protect the civilians” in the country but who, on orders of their superiors, shoot adolescents, farmers and other noncombatants to practice their “first kill” called “blooding.”  The victims were helpless and in noncombat situations; weapons were planted to simulate threat; and the stories were covered up for years.  Body parts were collected, including prosthetics used for drinking vessels.  There was a raid on the office of the national broadcaster who first raised the issue, and an attempt to prosecute the journalist who wrote the article.  In this recent report, 39 Afghans were established as unlawfully killed over 10 years, as researched by the four-year investigation of the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force, with an unnamed number for other types of cases.