Ben Roberts-Smith’s arrest won’t erase the pain for Afghans – but it shows Australia is willing to face uncomfortable truths | Shadi Khan Saif

In the context of the Afghanistan war, this kind of accountability is rare, and it matters Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Even for Afghans like me, the details of what some of Australia’s SAS soldiers had been accused of in Afghanistan came to light very late. They only began to surface after a handful of journalists chose to listen to Afghans who had been ignored for years and gave space to families who had long been silenced. For a long time, these claims – of...

By Shadi Khan Saif