Confessions raise war crimes issue in Australia
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SYDNEY — Confessions by a former refugee that he is a killer responsible for scores of deaths in Myanmar have raised questions about whether other possible war criminals are living in Australia undetected.
Myanmar-born Htoo Htoo Han, now an Australian citizen, has lived in the country for more than decade and is a father to three school-aged children.
But he claims to have a dark past, saying he infiltrated the student movement in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, in the late 1980s and provided information to an army death squad.
Han says he killed 24 young men himself with bullets to the back of their heads, and was implicated in the deaths of more than 100 others..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110805com6.html
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