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A RAN lawyer is wanting to look into the famous Boer War case again, to establish if Harry 'Breaker' Morant and Joesph Handcock were actually given a fair trial, for the shooting of Boer POW's and weren't just treated as scapegoats .
Last edited by Kangaroofarmer; 10-19-2009 at 10:29 AM..
retroactive social conscious applied that far back.
it's not that they're applying a modern social conscious to it, but apparently the lawyer and historian (i think that's what they are) are arguing that they didn't receive a fair trial even by the standards of the day. The Breaker Morant story gets a bit of coverage because it's a well known piece of Australian history.
hhmmm 1899, a bit unfair---- retroactive social conscious applied that far back.
We have done it retrospectively for other historical events and figures so I have no problem with them doing it for Breaker.
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