Media Release 8 December 2020
FitZsimons very wide of the mark – ‘Breaker’ campaigner calls out new book
‘His (Fitzsimmons) celebrity lends him a megaphone, which allows him to get his views out, but they should not be confused with the truth of the matter.’
For the past decade Military Lawyer, James Unkles, has pursued justice for the descendants of Lieutenants Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant, Peter Handcock and George Witton who were found guilty of killing prisoners during the Boer War. Morant and Handcock were executed and Witton imprisoned in 1902. Australians have long believed that they were scapegoats for Lord Kitchener’s controversial “take no prisoners” policy and that the trial process was flawed.
Unkles’ campaign is backed by new research and learned legal opinion from the likes of Geoffrey Robertson QC and Sir Laurence Street, former Chief Justice of NSWs, which Peter Fitzsimons latest book ‘Breaker Morant’ attempts to dispute.
‘His (Fitzsimmons) celebrity status which allows him to get his views out, but they should not be confused with the truth of the matter,’ said Unkles.
‘He is on the record as saying he is not a historian, so it is curious why he has tried to present himself as one with his latest book on Breaker Morant,’ said Unkles.
‘It contains no new research, yet passes judgment on Morant et al ignoring inconvenient facts such as killings carried out by British servicemen and acquiesced to by senior officers, which went unpunished, and the many blatant abuses of British Military Law that took place during their courts martial. In his public comments he has made numerous basic factual errors.’ Another error is his claim that Morant and Handcock were convicted of shooting German missionary, Heese. Morant and Handcock were acquitted of the charge.
“This military prosecution was illegal from the moment when the men were arrested in October 1901 to their execution on 27 February 1902”.
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The controversy about this case continues. It is still headline news 120 years after the fact and the Australian public and the men’s descendants want to see it properly investigated in an open and transparent manner.
Unkles believes that the case does have echoes in the present day as seen in the recent Brereton report into the killings by Australian servicemen in Afghanistan. While the circumstances were completely different it does raise issues of fair representation, trial in accordance with the presumption of innocence and in accordance with military and common law of 1902 and what British superior officers knew and acquiesced to.
‘Injustices, in any age, must be addressed to demonstrate respect for the rule of law. ’The Morant case is not about using legal technicalities or modern law to judge the past, but exposing serious errors made in the administration of justice by the standards of 1902,’ said Unkles.
‘I’d be happy to debate Fitzsimmons and put his many public proclamations and errors to a proper test.’
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