British military in Afghanistan killed more than 50 detainees and unarmed men under suspicious circumstances, a newly obtained military investigation found.
The Daily Sabah on Tuesday reports the BBC Panorama program looked into documents of operations by the Special Air Service (SAS), a British elite unit used in special operations and found they include reports covering more than a dozen ‘kill or capture’ raids carried out by one SAS squadron in Helmand in 2010/11.
The report also alleges that "internal emails show that officers at the highest levels of Special Forces were aware there was concern over possible unlawful killings but failed to report the suspicions to military police despite a legal obligation to do so.”
The investigation by the BBC suggests that "one unit may have unlawfully killed 54 people in one six-month tour.”
In 2014, the Royal Military Police launched an investigation into more than 600 alleged offences by British forces in Afghanistan, including a number of killings by the SAS squadron.
But investigators said they were "obstructed" by the British military, and the investigation ended in 2019.
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