Word: australian
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...Last week the Australian Defence Force said it would defend the claim and denied that any of the soldiers acted improperly. But today the soldier who fired on the vehicle spoke for the first time about the incident and revealed he, like a number of his comrades, had left the army after the shooting and was undergoing psychiatric treatment for post-traumatic stress syndrome - a condition he believes the army is not doing enough to treat...
...Iraqi family is suing the Australian government for damages after they were shot by Australian soldiers. The case has raised questions about the liabilities of defense personnel who harm civilians in a war zone, and prompted angry soldiers to demand better care and protection from the government on their return...
...Saadi family allege they had been traveling in their vehicle in a street near the Australian embassy in Baghdad on the evening of February 26, 2005, when they were fired upon without warning. Nezar al-Saadi claims that when he stopped his car, an Australian soldier knelt down and fired four rounds into the passenger side of the vehicle, according to a statement filed in a Brisbane court last week...
...loss of sight in her left eye, skull and jaw fractures, hearing loss and scarring to her face. Her son Ahmed, then 8, was blinded in the right eye from glass splinters from the windscreen; Mr. al-Saadi and other children suffered mental trauma. They also allege the Australian soldiers failed to give them medical assistance. They claim they were given no warning before the soldiers opened fire...
...asked that only his first name be used for security reasons, also disputed parts of the al-Saadi's account. He believes the Australian government handled the matter poorly at the time and failed to keep soldiers informed about the case and the al-Saadi family's move to Australia. "It was always my worst fear. I knew this thing was never going to go away," says the private, who, a month earlier, had been in a vehicle that was attacked by a suicide bomber in a car rigged with explosives...