British general’s concealment of war crimes in Afghanistan
According to British media reports, one of the country's top generals has been hiding evidence of war crimes in Afghanistan. |
According to the regional office of Tasnim news agency, “Gavin Jenkins, one of the senior generals of the British Army, has been accused of concealing war crimes in Afghanistan despite receiving written evidence.
According to British media reports, This general was told in 2011 that members of the British Special Air Force killed the detainees. At that time, he wrote in response: A full investigation is needed in this field, but the evidence was kept in a safe. According to reports, the failure to refer the evidence to the military police This was revealed in court, but the identity of the officers involved in the case was withheld by the Ministry of Defense. report the war crime to the military police, but this case was locked in the safe for four years. Accusations of killings by these forces in Afghanistan are currently the subject of an official investigation led by a judge at the British Crown Court. Last year, the BBC revealed in a report that a unit British special forces have killed at least 54 Afghans intentionally and under suspicious circumstances during a six-month mission.
In March 2011, one of the officers told General Jenkins. It reported that a member of the British Special Air Forces had admitted that military units of the country’s army illegally kill unarmed people and detainees during night raids.
This member of the British Special Air Force wrote in a letter: “In one case, a pillow was placed on the head of a person who was killed with a pistol.”
With this Now, British military police investigators have told the BBC that they are not allowed to carry out a full and independent investigation into the killings of the special forces.
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