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Senior UK peculiar forces leaders covered up imaginable warfare crimes successful Afghanistan, a erstwhile high-ranking serviceman has told a nationalist enquiry probing the claims, according to grounds released connected Monday (December 1, 2025).
The serviceman alleged 2 erstwhile directors of the peculiar forces and others failed to enactment connected concerns that units carried retired unlawful killings portion operating successful the state much than a decennary ago.
The inquiry, which opened successful 2023 astatine London's Royal Courts of Justice, is investigating the accusations astir the peculiar forces' behaviour successful Afghanistan betwixt 2010 and 2013, including the sidesplitting of women and children.
"I was profoundly troubled by what I powerfully suspected was the unlawful sidesplitting of guiltless people," the whistleblowing serviceman -- known lone to the enquiry arsenic N1466 -- said successful witnesser testimony.
He added helium came "to the presumption that the contented of extrajudicial killings was not confined to a tiny fig of soldiers oregon a azygous sub-unit ... but was perchance much widespread".
Mansour Aziz, the uncle of 2 Afghan children earnestly injured by UK peculiar forces portion their parents were allegedly changeable dormant successful their beds, spoke to the enquiry successful a abbreviated 2023 video, the Guardian reported.
"Even to this time they are grieving the incidental that happened to us... We are asking for the tribunal to perceive to these children and bring justice," helium said.
The whistleblower said elder officers had impeded his efforts to "do the close thing" and that helium "lost confidence" successful their willingness to study the allegations to subject constabulary investigators.
The inquiry, led by a elder UK judge, is scrutinising 2 investigations conducted by the royal subject police, which is liable for the policing of service personnel.
It follows ineligible challenges by the families of immoderate of the dozens of radical allegedly murdered by British peculiar forces, successful peculiar during nighttime raids.
Afghan families person accused units of the celebrated Special Air Service, wide known by its SAS acronym, of conducting a "campaign of murder" against civilians.
The BBC reported successful 2022 that 1 SAS squadron had killed astatine slightest 54 people, including detainees and children, successful suspicious circumstances during 1 six-month circuit of Afghanistan.
The whistleblower said concerns astir imaginable "war crimes" were archetypal flagged to the manager of peculiar forces successful aboriginal 2011 but not acted on.
No charges person been brought by constabulary successful the lawsuit raised by Mansour Aziz nether Operation Northmoor probe, which was acceptable up successful 2014 to analyse the accusations.
Three soldiers were referred to the Service Prosecuting Authority, but nary was prosecuted.
