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Australia’s ‘trial of the century’ stains its most decorated soldier

By Yan Zhuang
New York Times·
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The case had been called Australia’s trial of the century. And although it centred on a claim of defamation, it grappled with a more consequential question: was the country’s most decorated living soldier a war criminal?

On Thursday, a judge effectively found that the answer was yes.

Four years after the soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, sued three newspapers that had accused him of killing unarmed Afghan prisoners in cold blood, the judge ruled against him in his defamation case, finding that

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