{"id":4152,"date":"2021-01-06T00:52:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T00:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4152"},"modified":"2021-01-06T00:52:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T00:52:12","slug":"china-and-australia-are-in-a-nasty-diplomatic-spat-over-a-fake-tweet-and-real-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4152","title":{"rendered":"China and Australia are in a nasty diplomatic spat over a fake tweet \u2014 and real war crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Last month, Australia released the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/afghanistaninquiry.defence.gov.au\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-11\/IGADF-Afghanistan-Inquiry-Public-Release-Version.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brereton report<\/a>, the result of a four-year inquiry into war crimes committed by the nation\u2019s elite Special Air Services while fighting in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the report\u2019s shocking allegations was that soldiers were involved in the murder of 39 Afghan civilians, none of which occurred during battle. Senior commanders allegedly prompted junior officers to kill prisoners in a process called \u201cblooding,\u201d and weapons were planted on the dead captives to justify their executions.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22021226\/australia-china-afghanistan-tweet\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22021226\/australia-china-afghanistan-tweet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Last month, Australia released the Brereton report, the result of a four-year inquiry into war crimes committed by the nation\u2019s elite Special Air Services while fighting in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Among the report\u2019s shocking allegations was that soldiers were involved in the murder of 39 Afghan civilians, none of which occurred during battle. Senior commanders allegedly prompted junior officers to kill prisoners in a process called \u201cblooding,\u201d and weapons were planted on the dead captives to justify their executions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[435,187,89,158,1132],"class_list":["post-4152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-afghanistan","tag-australia","tag-china","tag-war","tag-war-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4153,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152\/revisions\/4153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}