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Veterans from Afghanistan and Iraq: British elite forces competed in killing

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Veterans from Afghanistan and Iraq: British elite forces competed in killing
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Former members of the British special forces described the alleged war crimes committed by British soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq more than a decade ago.

More than 30 serving witnesses who have been served by special forces, they were interrupted in the emission of BBC Panorama and spoke about the illegal murders and execution of the detainees, including children, during invasions on two Asian countries.

David Cameron, who was the Prime Minister from June 2010. until November 2013, in the period under a public investigation into special forces, he was more than a more than a night raids and murders in which the then Afghan President Hamid Karzai, according to the BBC.

The killing of detainees was ‘routine’

Cameron spokesman said that “every suggestion is that [on] He participated in concealing allegations of serious crimes complete nonsense “.

In the center of the testimonies, special air services (SAS) and the special services of the Navy, top units of the United Kingdom’s special forces.

“They put handcuffs to a young boy and shot him,” a veteran who served himself with elite soldiers in Afghanistan.

“Obviously, he was a child, he wasn’t even close to the years that are suitable for fighting.”

The killing of the detainees “was a routine,” he told Veteran, adding to remove plastic handcuffs from the executed detainees and asked their bodies to the photos taken from the scene of the events, looked like fighters.

Another veteran from the Navy Special Forces said that some members of the service showed “Barbarian” and “psychopathic” behavior because they felt untouchable before the law.

One former soldier described the murders as something that could become “addiction” because some soldiers in Afghanistan became “intoxicated by that feeling”.

“In some operations, the soldiers would enter buildings like boarding houses and killed everything there,” he said.

“They would get inside and shot all who slept there. It is not justified to kill people as they sleep.”

‘Everybody knew’ for murders

Even wounded people who did not represent a threat to anyone executed, in violation of international law, witnesses who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

A former member of the special forces said that the execution of unarmed people in Iraq was never properly researched, adding that the higher commanders were aware of the problem long before sending to Afghanistan.

The BBC also got new video evidence showing that the units guided the murder records in order to compete with others.

One veteran said his former colleague was trying to kill in every operation, and that he became “notorious” on the murder of dozens of people.

The second veteran said that in the command of British special forces “everyone knew” for murders, and the testimonies suggest that the officers falsified reports after operations to avoid verification, transmits Alaser.

(Vijesti.ba)


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