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Miklos Bolza

Plenty of proof for two Roberts-Smith murders: lawyers

Ben Roberts-Smith claims he legitimately shot a Taliban insurgent and not a prisoner. (Flavio Brancaleone/AAP PHOTOS)

A range of witnesses including soldiers and Afghan villagers gave clear accounts Ben Roberts-Smith was involved in war crimes while deployed to fight the Taliban, an appeals court has heard.

The decorated war veteran is appealing a Federal Court judgment that in June dismissed his defamation case over reports about his involvement in the murder of four unarmed prisoners while deployed in Afghanistan in 2009 and 2012.

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