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Episode: Ali Jan’s family speaks: We want to testify against Australian troops
Description: In the spring of 2012, an unarmed Afghan villager, Ali Jan, was allegedly kicked off a cliff by Ben Roberts-Smith, who then purportedly directed another soldier to execute him.That allegation was central to the landmark defamation action brought by Roberts-Smith, where the court found it to be “substantially true”. Roberts-Smith has appealed that decision and the allegations have never been proven to a standard that would be required in a criminal trial.The government has said it plans to compensate the families of victims of alleged Afghanistan war crimes, but 11 years after his murde...