At least 45 Australian soldiers killed themselves after PoW training, inquiry told

ADF has never investigated whether course in coping with being interrogated or tortured was linked to deaths, royal commission hears

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At least 45 Australian defence force personnel who attended training to deal with potentially being captured, interrogated and tortured, subsequently killed themselves, an inquiry has been told.

But the force is yet to investigate whether the training was a direct trigger for the deaths.

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