Public inquiry into alleged actions of SAS units to begin amid victims’ families pleas for truth to be uncovered
A public inquiry into allegations that 80 Afghans were summarily killed by members of three different British SAS units begins on Monday amid pleas from victims’ families to uncover the truth behind the deaths.
Leigh Day, the firm representing Aziz and other victims’ families, said that while there were Afghan news reports of civilians being killed or injured at the time, it was still not clear whether the incident was investigated internally by the SAS, then commanded by Gen Sir Mark Carleton-Smith, or the Royal
Judicial review proceedings were brought by the Saifullah and Noorzai families in 2019 and 2020. They claimed that the deaths of their family members were a consequence of a policy of extrajudicial killings that were subsequently covered up by the SAS and in Whitehall. “My family and I request the inquiry team to provide us with the truth and explain to us why and on what basis we had to go through this cruelty,” said the family member, whose identity was withheld by their legal team.
Instead, following a ruling from presiding judge Lord Justice Haddon-Cave, it will refer only to UK special forces, a position arrived at after
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