Australia's prime minister condemned heckling and booing Friday at two solemn Anzac Day commemorations as "low cowardice", warning that those responsible would "face the full force of the law". The disruption of Anzac Day is beyond contempt, and the people responsible must face the full force of the law," he told reporters in Canberra.
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