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A confidential defence inquiry has found members of Australia’s special forces units allegedly committed war crimes in Afghanistan.

The inquiry, ordered in 2016 by the then special operations commander, Major General Jeff Sengelman, and conducted by research consultant Samantha Crompvoets, heard “allusions to behaviour and practices involving abuse of drugs and alcohol, domestic violence, [and] unsanctioned and illegal application of violence on operations” by SAS soldiers. An interviewee quoted in the report, who chose to remain anonymous, claimed “disgraceful things [that] happened in Kabul” were “pretty much kept under wraps” …

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The Saturday Paper