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Misconduct allegations against Australian troops during their 1999 deployment to East Timor included a claim of "unnecessary amputation" of a suspected militia member's arm, the Defence Department has revealed.

Among other previously unknown allegations was a claim of "inappropriate behaviour" toward exhumed bodies in the enclave of Oecussi, and use of excessive force against a militia member who attempted to escape.

The list, supplied by the Defence Department, sets out for the first time all 19 allegations of misconduct made against Australian troops in the chaotic weeks immediately after their arrival in the troubled former Indonesian province in September 1999All of the allegations except one were eventually found to be unsubstantiated. That charge, of kicking a dead body, is soon to be the subject of a trial against a former senior Special Air Service soldier.

It arose from the aftermath of an ambush of the SAS by suspected militia members on October 6, 1999, near the ...

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