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EXCLUSIVE Sneering 'historians' like Peter FitzSimons call him a stain on our forces. Now, CANDACE SUTTON meets the military men who insist Australia's first war criminal died an innocent man after an unforgivable betrayal...
It is one of the greatest scenes in Australian cinema: when real-life war criminals Peter Handcock and Harry 'Breaker' Morant - played by Bryan Brown and Edward Woodward - walk hand-in-hand towards a clifftop to be shot dead.
The film Breaker Morant, the award-winning magnum opus of director Bruce Beresford, tells a true story that still divides Australians today - and one that may finally be resolved by an act of parliament.
