British Ministry of Defense admits to the war crimes of its soldiers in Afghanistan
| The British deputy defense minister admitted in a statement that he could not find any evidence to refute the claim that his country's military was involved in war crimes against unarmed Afghans. |
He added: Unarmed Afghans were most likely killed by commandos’ bullets.
Johnny Mercer, who is responsible for the affairs of former soldiers. is responsible for stating: He is looking for evidence to refute the accusations of war crimes by the British special forces in Afghanistan, but he has not yet been able to find evidence, and the commanders of the special forces have not been able to answer the basic questions.
A British court judge It investigates the issue of war crimes against unarmed Afghans. This discussion was raised when investigative reports were published about the illegal killing of unarmed people by British special forces soldiers in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013.
It is said that these people were killed while in which Zaman was not a threat to British forces.
British media announced that the country’s veteran affairs officer said that a number of special forces informed him that this claim is very likely to be true.
Johnny Mercer served as a British Special Forces officer in Afghanistan from 2008 to 2009.
He said that during his service in Afghanistan, he felt that something unusual had happened among the Special Air Force. .
According to the research of a British legal organization called “Lee Day”, which began in December 2022, British special forces in Afghanistan have killed at least 80 Afghan civilians between 2010 and 2014.
The English “Times” also revealed in a report that before the inspectors visited the headquarters of the special forces in London as part of the war crimes investigation, the British commanders destroyed the related files.
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