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CANBERRA, Australia — Police on Monday charged the primary Australian veteran for an alleged homicide in Afghanistan three years after a battle crime investigation discovered that 19 Australian particular forces troopers might face costs for unlawful conduct in the course of the battle.

A 41-year-old man was arrested in New South Wales state and charged by police with the battle crime of homicide, an Australian Federal Police assertion mentioned.

“It will likely be alleged he murdered an Afghan man whereas deployed to Afghanistan,” the assertion mentioned.

He’s anticipated to look earlier than a Sydney courtroom inside days, when a Justice of the Peace will possible contemplate whether or not he will be launched from custody on bail.

The person was identified by Australian Broadcasting Corp. and Information Corp as former Particular Air Service Regiment trooper Oliver Schulz.

ABC broadcast helmet digital camera video in 2020 of a soldier it mentioned was Schulz taking pictures an Afghan man in 2012 in a wheat discipline in Uruzgan province.

He faces a possible sentence of life in jail if convicted.

Police are working with the Workplace of the Particular Investigator, an Australian investigation company established in 2021, to construct instances towards elite SAS and Commando Regiments troops who served in Afghanistan between 2005 and 2016.

A army report launched in 2020 after a four-year investigation found evidence that Australian troops unlawfully killed 39 Afghan prisoners, farmers and civilians. The report beneficial 19 present and former troopers face legal investigation.

Benjamin Roberts-Smith, Australia’s most extremely embellished member of the armed providers when he left the SAS in 2013, has been accused by former colleagues of illegal remedy of prisoners, together with unlawful killings. The previous corporal, who was awarded the Victoria Cross and the Medal for Gallantry for his service in Afghanistan, has denied any misconduct.

His year-long defamation trial towards The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Canberra Instances newspapers resulted in July 2022 however a judgment has but to be introduced.

Greater than 39,000 Australian army personnel served in Afghanistan in the course of the 20 years till the 2021 withdrawal, and 41 have been killed there.