KABUL: After Prince Harry acknowledged to killing 25 people while serving in Afghanistan for the UK military, Afghan families demanded that he be put on trial. Afghan families want Prince Harry’s trial over killings revelation.
The duke of Sussex disclosed that he killed 25 people in Afghanistan while flying an Apache chopper in his autobiography, Spare. He claimed that instead of viewing them as “people,” he saw them as “chess pieces” that had been removed from the game.
Afghanistan’s citizens harshly criticised the prince’s remarks and Afghan families want Prince Harry’s trial over killings revelation.
Harry, who served in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008 as a forward air controller during airstrikes and from 2012 to 2013 as an attack helicopter pilot, performed his military service at the British base Camp Bastion in the Helmand province of the nation.
Families who lost loved ones in airstrikes in the Helmand province’s Sangin area claimed that the victims were regular Afghan citizens, not insurgents or terrorists.
Hamdullah Alizai, 45, a resident of the Sangin district, said that in August 2008, the British Air Force carried out attacks on their settlements, killing 27 people including his father and 15-year-old brother.
“We were devastated then and we had hard days. We strongly condemn Prince Harry’s statements. We demand that he be put on trial and punished,” Alizay stressed.
Mohammed Alizai, 38, another resident, said he lost his then-23-year-old newly engaged brother in the attacks.
He recalled that they had to bury some bodies in different villages for fear of bombardment.
Habibul Rahman Noorzai, 38, whose father, uncle and 20-year-old brother were killed in the attacks, said: “British and foreign soldiers committed many atrocities here. We want them to be brought to justice.”
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