SAS units in Afghanistan: * shot dead a sleeping couple in bed, badly injuring two toddlers with them;
https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1995503437425861008
Whistleblower reveals that SAS units in Afghanistan:
* shot dead a sleeping couple in bed, badly injuring two toddlers with them;
* killed a group of women and children under a mosquito net;
* took existing prisoners along on raids so they could be executed as though they posed a threat;
* placed weapons on the bodies of civilians the SAS had illegally killed to justify their murder.
This went on for years. Senior officers systematically covered up these war crimes.
The whistleblower told a belated inquiry investigating summary executions of 80 people in Afghanistan by SAS units: “We didn’t join UKSF [special forces] for this sort of behaviour – toddlers to get shot in their beds or random killing. It’s not special, it’s not elite.”
The inquiry, under Lord Justice Haddon-Cave, is happening in place of a proper war crimes trial at the International Criminal Court. The ICC ducked prosecuting UK commanders and soldiers, even though its chief prosecutor had found plenty of evidence of UK forces committing war crimes.
Why? The US had recently intimidated the court, issuing severe sanctions on its judges and officials to dissuade them from pursuing war crimes allegations against US forces. Presumably the ICC got cold feet.
There should be no expectation that any serious prosecutions of UK forces will take place, despite the mass of evidence. This is just another way of continuing the cover-up.
The same story is playing out over Gaza.
The UK and US are not only actively assisting Israel's continuing war crimes against the Palestinian population, but they have renewed a campaign of intimidation against the ICC to protect the West's key client state.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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