The 47-year-old former SAS corporal was detained Tuesday by Australian Federal Police on five counts of war crime murder, linked to unarmed Afghan nationals killed between 2009 and 2012 while under Australian control.
The charges follow a joint probe sparked by the 2020 Brereton Report and a 2023 court ruling that upheld media claims of his involvement in murders.
Each count carries a potential life sentence; he denies wrongdoing amid divided reactions from politicians and veterans stressing accountability and military respect.
The Australian government just arrested our most decorated veteran from the Afghanistan War for alleged war crimes.
Ben Roberts-Smith was awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia after singlehandedly storming two Taliban machine gun positions by himself in order to save his own SAS team.
And this is how we repay him.
I spoke to an Australian Afghan war veteran who told me that the Australian government literally paid for billboards in Afghanistan offering to pay random Afghans to come forward with war crime allegations. What country on Earth would do this to itself?
Tell me: When does the Taliban plan on holding war crimes tribunals into their own people? When do the Taliban plan on holding themselves accountable for terrorism?
Absolutely retarded to purge your own men when fighting a brutal barbaric enemy that respects no rules whatsoever.
We are a cucked nation.
Free Ben Roberts-Smith.