Australian defence minister says war crimes report ‘made her ill’

Chief of the Australian Defence Force General Angus Campbell (AP)

Australian defence minister Linda Reynolds said she was “physically ill” after reading a military report which claimed to have evidence showing 39 Afghan prisoners, farmers and civilians were unlawfully killed by Australian elite soldiers.

She told a business conference in Perth: “I was like every other Australian who watched that; I was totally and utterly shocked and mortified.