The grief with which Afghan Australians are watching their homeland on the brink of a humanitarian crisis and the Taliban taking over is compounded by the knowledge that the Australian government continues to deny Afghan Australians justice by, first, holding to account the Australian Special Forces Soldiers who committed heinous acts of violence and, second, by refusing to issue immediate evacuation orders for those Afghans who served as interpreters and employees assisting Australia during their deployment.

On Monday 19 April, 2021 Defence Minister Peter Dutton announced that he would overturn General Angus Campbell’s decision to strip meritorious unit citations from around 3000 special forces soldiers who served in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2013 in light of the Brereton report findings  into Afghan war crimes. Dutton stated that: ’99 per cent of our people earned that citation through their brave and courageous actions, we will deal with the one per cent through other processes, including the OSI (Office of Special Investigator) and if they are found guilty under Australian law, they will be stripped of their honour.’ His comments in relation to the one percent shows his callous disregard of the ample evidence suggesting that the SAS were complicit in the atrocities.