The case had been called Australia's trial of the century.And though it centered on a claim of defamation, it grappled with a more consequential question: Was the country's most decorated living soldier a war criminal?On Thursday, a judge effectively found that the answer was yes.Four years after the soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, sued three newspapers that had accused him of killing unarmed Afghan prisoners in cold blood, the judge ruled against him in his defamation case, finding that the newspapers had proved their accounts of his actions were substantially true.
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