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Australia's Attorney, Nicola Roxon is about to announce her decision concerning the call for an inquiry and posthmous pardons

Will the Australian Government take a stand after 110 years of controversy?

This is an historic development as Australia is finally taking action after 109 years since the executions

Australia's Attorney, Nicola Roxon is about to announce her decision concerning the call for an inquiry and posthmous pardons

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Introduction

The Boer War and Lieutenants Breaker Morant, Peter Handcock and George Witton

Between 1899 and 1902, 16,000 men went from Australia to the Boer War in South Africa, more than 500 of them died there. Australians who served also included an unknown number of Aboriginal trackers.

Six Australians received the Victoria Cross in South Africa, and many others received other decorations. Though the nation honoured its dead with ceremonies and monuments, the enormity of the following two world wars overshadowed the legacy of this terrible and bloody conflict. It should always be remembered that the Boer War soldiers are the precursors of the Anzac Legend.

110 Years Later

On 27 February, 2012, it will be 110 years since Lieutenants Harry 'Breaker' Morant and Peter Handcock were executed for offences of their British superiors. Morant and Handcock and Lieutenant George Witton were denied fair trials according to the laws of 1902.

The descendants of these three Australian veterans call on Attorney General, Ms Nicola Roxon to do what her predecessor, Mr Robert Mcclelland had decided to do in 2011, and persuade the British government to appoint an independent inquiry into the case for pardons. This injustice must come to an end!

Jack Thompson A M

"Now we have served you fairly
Will you not take us home?"

A.B.'Banjo'Paterson

- Quoted by Jack Thompson A M 2010

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