Professor B. Beaumont Whitford
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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And in some countries, you know, the crime of making a false allegation is that you get sent to jail for the same reason
yeah maybe he's innocent yeah well you know that's that's the thing that we we really live in a society where you are guilty before there's any proof and well if you look at the new south wales can i interject yeah ben robert smith yeah
Wasn't there a bit of jealousy because he got the VC?
Because that sort of smacks off a lot of those testimonies.
And I've read a bit about this.
And those testimonies seemed pretty much like around jealousy, like why is he the special guy?
when you did your basic training, before you became a paratrooper even, the Air Force chaplain came in and gave us a lecture about Mai Le, which was that village in Vietnam where a bunch of American soldiers who'd been...
They were being harangued and attacked and booby-trapped by the Viet Cong, and they came to this village, and they vented their frustrations.
They set fire to it.
The chaplains told us this story, and they said... I'm very familiar with it.
Yeah, so sometimes there's unlawful orders, but all day we're getting told...
Blind orders, blind obedience, turn left, turn right, don't question.
So I thought that was very interesting.
So the way that troops and airmen get taught about war crimes, I think is as vague as you can get.
And I can't see any evidence that, I mean, not that I was on the ground like you, but I can't see any evidence that Ben Roberts' myth
Trying to throw a bit of flame onto the fire of the war crime allegations.
And there was the personal allegations.
Like a lot of marriages break down, but you end up with a war crime rap.
But that's the thing.
We've got to get active.
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