Australian armed forces extend brutality inquiry

Canberra, Feb 4: Australia's Defence force is to launch a new bid on Monday to deal with allegations of brutality and "rough Justice&...

Canberra, Feb 4: Australia’s Defence force is to launch a new bid on Monday to deal with allegations of brutality and "rough Justice" within its ranks.

Defence Force Chief Admiral Chris Barrie said up to 80,000regular and reserve service personnel would be encouraged to participate in a special inquiry into whether there is "a systematic culture of abuse" of military discipline within the forces.

The review, announced last year and headed by a retiredjudge, follows a series of damaging allegations about internal brutality, centring on one of Australia’s elite fighting units, the Third Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment.

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"We must get to the bottom of any inappropriate or unlawfulbehaviours which have been going on, but have not been properly dealt with," Barrie said in a statement on Sunday.

Barrie said he would address most of the country’s regulartroops via a video at special meetings on Monday, with his message on the issue of military Justice to be backed up by commanding officers.

"Rough Justice will not be tolerated in the ADF (AustralianDefence Force)," Assistant Defence Minister Bruce Scott said.

Allegations of systematic violence have been made againstthe Third RAR unit, which was one of the first sent into East Timor in 1999 when Australia led a multinational peacekeeping force to the former Indonesian territory.

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