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The Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) 2023 in Western Visayas concluded peacefully, marked by a significant deployment of security forces and a successful holding of the polls on Monday, October 30, 2023.

The Brereton inquiry found “credible” evidence to implicate 25 current or former Australian defence force personnel in the alleged unlawful killing of 39 individuals and the cruel treatment of two others. When announcing his response to the inquiry report in November, the chief of defence force, Angus Campbell, said units “live and fight as a team”. “With this in mind, I have accepted the inspector general’s recommendation and will write to the governor general requesting he revoke ...

Minister nixes move to strip special forces of medals The Guardian Australian Minister for Defence Peter Dutton has moved to stamp his authority in his new role by overruling a decision to strip meritorious unit citations from about 3,000 special forces soldiers who served in Afghanistan. Dutton yesterday told radio 2GB that war crimes allegations were shocking, but added: “My judgement was that we shouldn’t be punishing the 99 percent for the sins of the 1 percent.” Australia is grapplin...

Australian soldiers who served in Afghanistan wont be stripped of their medals because of war crime allegations facing some special forces soldiers, defence minister Peter Dutton has announced.  Defence Force chief Angus Campbell recommended Meritorious Unit Citations be taken from three thousand soldiers from Special Operations Task Groups that served in Afghanistan from April 2007 to December 2013. Described as collective responsibility by Mr Campbell, the move was originally recommended by...