Counsel to London inquiry into 80 civilian deaths focuses on British operations in Helmand province between 2010 and 2013
Britain’s SAS faced allegations that it shot dead nine Afghans while they were sleeping and engaged in a policy of “executing Afghan males of fighting age” between 2010 and 2013, on the first day of a public inquiry into the killing of 80 civilians in
They “carried out a policy of executing Afghan males of fighting age in circumstances where they posed no immediate threat or were,” in scenarios where they were vulnerable or said to have suddenly produced a gun or grenade. Glasgow also highlighted emails that appeared to indicate there was an effort to brush concerns under the carpet, and scepticism in some quarters that internal reports on the growing number of deadly incidents were not credible.
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