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Controversy still surrounds events marked this week by centenary WWI commemorations

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Since Breaker Morant, accusations of war crimes committed by Australians have always been controversial - even when the alleged events happened a long time ago. So it is with the argument that Australian troops killed unarmed native New Guineans during the operation to capture German New Guinea at the outset of World War I. There are also accusations that Australian forces flouted the rules of war by flogging German civilian prisoners and forcing a badly wounded German officer to act as a human shield. Commemorations for the first to die fig...
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2014
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Australia
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Nick Grimm
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