"The former director of UK special forces and other senior military officers tried to cover up concerns that SAS units were carrying out unlawful killings in Afghanistan, an inquiry has heard. A senior special forces whistleblower said the chain of command failed to stop extrajudicial shootings, including of two small children, after the alarm was first raised in early 2011. That failure allegedly allowed them to continue until 2013."
"We could have stopped it in February 2011. Those people who died unnecessarily from that point onwards, there were two toddlers shot in their bed next to their parents all that would not necessarily have come to pass if that had been stopped."
"Even to this day, they are grieving the incident that happened to us We are asking for the court to listen to these children and bring justice."
An inquiry into alleged summary killings in Afghanistan examines claims that up to 80 people were summarily killed by three different British SAS units. A senior special forces whistleblower, identified as N1466, said concerns about possible war crimes were first raised in February 2011 and that the chain of command failed to stop extrajudicial shootings, allowing them to continue until 2013. The allegations include two toddlers shot while asleep in Shesh Aba, Nimruz province, in 2012, whose parents were killed. The whistleblower alleged senior leaders, including the director of special forces, attempted to suppress information about the alleged criminality.
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