Prince Harry had announced it, he will address all the subjects in his memoirs: his childhood and his exile, his mother Lady Diana and his wife Meghan Markle, the new king and the last queen, his grandmother Elizabeth II, the humanitarian aid and the army... And this, down to the smallest detail.
In
Spare
(
Le Suppléant, to be published
by Fayard in France), the Duke of Sussex reveals that he killed 25 "Taliban" when he was employed as a helicopter pilot in Afghanistan.
He further clarifies that he had to treat his targets as "chess pieces" as learned in training in order to shoot,
The Telegraph
reported on Thursday (January 5th).
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The youngest son of King Charles III has, in fact, spent ten years in the British army, with two deployments in Afghanistan: in 2007-2008 for ten weeks, then as a helicopter pilot in the south of the country from September 2012 to January 2013. He will finally resign in 2015, unable to return to the field.
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“We shoot when necessary”
Prince Harry in Afghanistan.
(January 2, 2008.) Getty Images
In his autobiography, to be published on January 10 but of which some newspapers have already obtained a copy, Prince Harry says he learned as part of his training to kill enemies and that it was part of his job.
“We shoot when necessary, take a life to save a life”, assures the grandson of Elizabeth II, now exiled in California.
It's not a figure that fills me with satisfaction, nor embarrasses me
prince harry
According to
The Telegraph
, he says of his second deployment that he could count the number of his victims thanks to the cameras on board his Apache helicopter.
“It seemed essential to me not to be afraid of this number.
So the number for me is 25. It is not a number that fills me with satisfaction, nor that embarrasses me,” writes the 38-year-old prince.
He says he considered these victims as "chess pieces" removed from the game, as planned in his training.
Because it is impossible to kill a target "if we consider it as a person", he insists.
“I had made it my goal from day one never to go to bed doubting that I had done the right thing, that I had shot Taliban and only Taliban, without civilians nearby,” he said.
"I wanted to go back to Britain whole, but more so I wanted to go home with my conscience intact."
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Also according to
The Telegraph
, the prince's military involvement has made him a potential target of terrorists, hence the fears about his safety he has expressed since he left the monarchy in 2020 and lost his public protection. .
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