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Afghan residents in the capital Kabul voiced their anger on June 1, 2023, calling for the execution of one of Australia’s most decorated soldiers. Former special forces officer Ben Roberts-Smith lost a defamation case against three publications accusing him of war crimes while deployed in Afghanistan. The courts ruled that reports of him killing unarmed Afghan prisoners and civilians were "substantially true".