Tuesday, October 25, 2011

News at Eleven: The 1902 execution of Australian soldier

and bush poet Harry 'The Breaker' Morant during the Boer War has been taken up by the Federal Government, which believes his trial may have been unfair.

Morant and Peter Handcock were executed for the murder of several Boer prisoners, but always insisted they had only been following "take no prisoners" orders issued by their British commanders.

from ABC News: Government reopens Breaker Morant case

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