Brereton Report: A tale of War crimes in Afghanistan

The formation of NATO has a significant impact toward the south east region. However there primary
goal was to tear down the hold of Al QAEDA a Jihadi group base camped in Afghanistan. Working under
the ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) Australia is one of the biggest supporters of NATO’s
mission in Afghanistan.

From November 2001 when U.S under assaulted by terrorists group, from that time Australia joined the
US-drove International Coalition against Terrorism by submitting military resources and staff to Coalition
tasks in Afghanistan. The troops in Afghanistan were left loosen and at their own will without any checks
and balances of human rights.

Situation got horrifying when these forces were not accountable to any human right commission as a
result; individuals from the Australian Special Forces slaughtered 39 Afghan non-combatants killings
executed not in the "mist of war" but rather against vulnerable civilians and prisoners. Story got out
when the special report were published criticizing these unjust acts by the forces

General Angus Campbell, Chief of the Australian Defense Force, delivered the summary of the last
report of a long-running investigation into those allegations. That report had been dispatched by the
Inspector General of the Australian Defense Force, an independent office outside the military levels of
leadership.

The report discovered proof of unarmed afghan residents, including youngsters, killed by or at the
guidance of faculty of the Australian Special Forces. The Brereton Report is the nail in the coffin in this
regard.

The Brereton War Crimes Report was a four-year report, compiled by Major General Paul Brereton, into
the direct abuse of power of Australian Defense Forces (ADF) somewhere in the range of 2005 and 2016.

They confronted the civilians by chanting them that Forces are here to protect from Afghani-Taliban,
despite they were creating horrifying situation throughout the people. Their private properties were
destroyed just for the sake of fun and amusements for the troops as they were filming almost every
incident there which according to them was funny. A narrator from Australian forces depicts the
situation as an adventure on a summer break for them.

It additionally exposed an upsetting and savage inception; a transitional experience known as blooding
in which junior officers were told by their watch administrators to shoot a detainee to stamp the
fighter's first execute. Toss downs unfamiliar hardware and weapons were put close by the dead bodies
and captured, causing it to appear as though the individual murdered had been a warrior and was a real
objective. A main story was made to dodge investigation, and witnesses stayed quiet.

Unit subculture was appearing as one of the main reason for this disturbing incident challenging their
norms and rules. Despite the broad embracement of humanitarian law, military has conducted a huge
number of atrocities among the third world countries. This indicates that how the situation could be
devastating if left unchecked.
The threats of these unit subcultures were as alarming. Among other upsetting charges, for instance,
one presumed basic practice among Australian special powers was "blooding." In this sort of inception
custom, the human rights watch requested junior officers to get their "first execute" by killing the
prisoners, which seems to be as they were shooting for the sake of fun no wonder whether the person
was connected to Taliban or not and guilty or not.

The condition was growing gruesome when the Afghani- civilians were found to be out- grouped.
Particularly appears when war was being carried out in Muslim majority region. Anti-Muslim attitudes
appear to be prevalent within elements of the Australian Special Forces community.

According to the report, the Special Forces carried out survey experiments with an Australian Special
Forces unit in 2017, finding nearly unanimous agreement with the statement that “the Muslim religion
promotes violence and terrorism.”

These normalized acts of violence by the West enables rite of passages, such as blooding and turn
civilians into collateral damage. Incidents spoke that these crimes were not committed in the heat of the
battle; these are indeed war crimes. This begs the question that how many killings have been legal?
Because the Australian Army decided they were committed in the heat of the battle.

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