The Taliban: “Mr. Harry, those you killed are not chess pieces, they were human beings”, accusing the prince of having committed “war crimes”.
A senior Taliban official, the Duke of Sussex, criticized Prince Harry today Friday after he revealed he killed 25 people during his military missions in Afghanistan, believing it was like removing “pieces of chess” from the board, this came in his memoirs, which are due to be published next week, according to the newspaper, as reported by British media.
And he wrote in a tweet: “Mr Harry, those you killed are not chess pieces, they were human beings”, accusing the prince of having committed “war crimes”. You were defeated in that game.”
Afghan government spokesman Bilal Karimi also criticized Prince Harry for his statements: “These crimes are not unique to Harry, but every occupied country has a history full of such crimes in our country,” he wrote in a tweet. crimes of the occupiers and they will always keep alive the flame of protection of their religion and their country”.
“The number is 25. It’s not a satisfactory number, but it doesn’t embarrass me either,” he wrote in his memoir, “Spare,” out Tuesday. Harry has flown two missions to Afghanistan against the Taliban, the first as a directive to aircraft first their airstrikes in 2007 and 2008, and secondly as an attack helicopter pilot in 2012 and 2013. He justified his actions by recalling the 9/11 attacks in the United States and recollections of meeting the families of the victims.
He wrote in his memoirs that these officials and their supporters are “enemies of humanity” and to fight them is tantamount to retaliation for a crime against humanity. However, his position has been met with sharp criticism in Britain.
For his part, Ben McBain, an ex-serviceman who lost an arm and a leg while serving in the Royal Navy in Afghanistan in 2008, whom Prince Harry has described as a “real hero”, denounced the prince’s comments writing in one tweet: “Love you Prince Harry, but you need to keep quiet! Makes you wonder who he’s spending his time with.”
As for Colonel Tim Collins, who was famous for an enthusiastic speech he gave before his soldiers in preparation for the war in Iraq, he saw the book as a “tragic success for profit” about the family of which he was a part. born.
This isn’t the first time Harry has raised controversy about his duties in Afghanistan. In 2013, he compared killing insurgents to playing video games, prompting the Taliban to question his mental health.
