Tuesday, November 16, 2010

News at Eleven: [Breaker] Morant and two other Australian soldiers

were accused of murdering Boer prisoners during the Boer War in South Africa. Morant and Peter Handcock were executed while a third man was acquitted after serving several years in jail.

Many have held that Morant and the others were only following orders from their British superiors or were not involved in the killings at all.

from UPI: No pardon for Breaker Morant

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