A senator invited the International Criminal Court to investigate what Australian military commanders knew about war crime allegations in Afghanistan in a bid to pressure Australia into launching its own review.
Sen. Jacqui Lambie, an influential independent legislator, sent an Article 15 Communication to the Hague-based court Tuesday because she argues military commanders have not been held accountable for their soldiers' alleged war crimes."The government is, no doubt, hoping this will all just go away.
Australia has avoided ICC involvement so far by launching its own war crime investigation under Maj. Gen. Paul Brereton, a judge and army reservist. Ben Roberts-Smith, Australia's most highly decorated member of the armed services when he left the SAS in 2013, is also under police investigation. The ICC could find that commanding officers "knew or should have known" of illegal conduct, Kolomeitz said.
He said Australian officers being tried in The Hague was an unlikely outcome, unless the government prolonged its inaction and the ICC found it necessary.
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