Australian PM Scott Morrison has demanded an official apology from China, after its foreign ministry spokesman urged a probe into recent war crimes allegations with an illustration of a soldier holding a knife to a child’s throat.
“Shocked by murder of Afghan civilians and prisoners by Australian soldiers,” Beijing’s foreign ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, said in a Tweet on Monday morning.
The post was illustrated with a photo collage of a soldier in Australian military uniform holding a knife to a child’s throat, with a caption that read ‘Don’t be afraid, we are coming to bring you peace!’
In an emergency press conference, Prime Minister Scott Morrison blasted China for this “utterly outrageous” and “false image and terrible slur”, and demanded an official apology while calling on Twitter to wipe the post.
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