Exclusive: Extensive deployments ‘raise serious concerns about transparency’, says research group Action on Armed Violence
The authors of the report said that the extensive list of deployments came despite a lack of oversight. While convention dictates that MPs have to vote for a war, special forces can be deployed without Commons approval – and their actions are not subject to investigation by any parliamentary committee.
At one point, shortly after 38 people – including 30 Britons – were killed by a terrorist at a beach hotel in Tunisia in June 2015, it was reported that the SAS had been givenby David Cameron, who was then prime minister, to capture or kill Islamist leaders in the Middle East. “The extensive deployment of Britain’s Special Forces in numerous countries over the past decade raises serious concerns about transparency and democratic oversight,” said Iain Overton, the executive director of AOAV. “The lack of parliamentary approval and retrospective reviews for these missions is deeply troubling.”in 2010 and 2011, typically on night raids. Men were separated from their families and repeatedly shot dead after being said to have produced a weapon.
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