Of course NZDF covered up their revenge attack war crime!

Chief Ombudsman calls out NZ Defence Force for acting ‘unreasonably’ during investigation

The Chief Ombudsman has called out the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) in a scathing new report, saying they acted “unreasonably” during his initial investigation into their actions.

Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier released his report on Thursday into whether the NZDF misled him while he was looking into complaints over their refusal to release crucial information about Operation Burnham.

Operation Burnham was a joint military operation between NZSAS troops and other countries’ forces in Afghanistan in 2010.

Boshier said the NZDF weren’t deceitful, but they still undermined the purpose of the Official Information Act (OIA).

Boshier is being kind. This kind of wilful ignorance and lack of paper trail and slowness in delivery and obscured processes is all part and parcel of a military who has done everything to deceive the public about what really happened once the book ‘Hit and Run‘ was published.

Why does anyone believe what the NZDF has to say? They’ve spent years lying to NZ, they attempted to smear Jon Stephenson and they were outed using the SIS to illegally spy on Nicky Hager.

We may not have pulled the trigger to kill those civilians, but we green lit a US attack helicopter into an SAS revenge raid John Key personally signed off on and that makes us responsible.

The second the public found out, the NZDF lied and lied and lied again!

Just consider the ludicrous things we are being asked to believe in the NZDF war crime white wash.

That a report confirming casualties during an SAS revenge attack secretly sits inside an NZDF safe only to magically appear one week before the current inquiry.

That the NZDF had an Officer ‘glance’ at the report, misread the report and falsely claim the report exonerates the NZDF.

This lie is then repeated for years.

BUT IT’S NOT A COVER UP.

Really?

This is the best the NZDF have to explain how 21 Afghan civilians came to be killed and wounded?

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