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Polish Supreme Court orders retrial for soldiers charged over Afghan deaths.

BBC Monitoring International Reports

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Text of report by Polish leading privately-owned centre-left newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza website, on 14 March

[Report by Bogdan Wroblewski: "The Nangar Khel case - Three soldiers' acquittals upheld"]

The Nangar Khel case is not finished. The Supreme Court has upheld the acquittal of the commander and two of the privates accused of killing civilians in Afghanistan, while ordering four commandoes to be retried. What happened outside Nangar Khel still remains unclear.

"This case has already been underway for four years and four months; I am not certain a repeat trial will change anything. I have not changed my opinion," General Waldemar Skrzypczak, a former Land Forces commander and today an adviser to the defence minister, said after the Supreme Court issued its ruling.

When prosecutors wanted to indict the soldiers, Gen. Skrzypczak …

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