While uncle Tom Cobley and his mates are baying for the crucifixion of Corporal Roberts-Smith, I thought it might be a good time to bring them back down to earth.
If you ask The Veteran, he will tell you war is a dirty, atrocious business with atrocities committed on both sides. For example, many would argue the February 1945 bombing of Dresden was an atrocity given the city’s limited military value.
It is difficult to find a place called Minqar Qaim on a modern day map of North Africa but during a break out from Minqar Qaim in 1942, elements of the Maori Batallion bayoneted and killed eighty unarmed German doctors and wounded in a field hospital.
So, if we are going to crucify Corporal Roberts-Smith, we’d better get the Maoris to pay reparations to the descendants of those eighty Germans who were murdered on a cold desert night.
About NZ$3million a piece should do. Just use the ill gotten gains from the Wapareira Trust and the Ngati Rangi Building Co.
No Minister 
War is hell,, and in any war a lot of evil perpetrated by people who would not do this in the ordinary course of life.
Your man in Oz was a fool, like many of his compatriots, thats why we have Kiwis living there to balance up Oz society :).
Why he displayed his foolishness like this is beyond me. Better to have remained silent.
Sure, the Maori’s did that and a few other things besides but they weren’t the only ones.
Im sure Andrei would be the first to decry Katyn Forest where 40,000 plus were murdered in cold blood… by the Russians. As Andrei would tell you, they were innocent Poles !! But never mind the Poles are about to have their revenge.
But as I said your Ozzie mate was a fool!
I suspect your Ozzies didnt take many Jap prisoners in WW2 , bit like the Uke’s calling the Russkies “orcs,” depersonalising them and then treating them like vermin , as were the Japs by the allies.
I have to agree. Had he kept his mouth shut he might have been fine.