"China would never do this and would simply cover it up."
Yes that's true and despite what some very childish posters say, I don't defend the misnamed CCP.
But these war crimes were exposed despite the government not because of the government. War crimes were covered up at every level of military command and government. The crimes only came to light due to the work of a very few investigative journalists. Those journalists homes were raided. David McBride still faces the prospect of decades in prison and there was an unprecedented federal police raid of the Sydney headquarters of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
