Prince Harry boasts of 25 killed Taliban – Islamist accuses Royal of war crimes
Created: 07/01/2023 18:24
By: Andreas Apetz
Prince Harry writes in his memoirs that he killed 25 people as a soldier in Afghanistan.
A Taliban member is now accusing him of war crimes.
London – Prince Harry speaks Tacheles: In his actually top-secret autobiography entitled "Spare" it's about sex, drugs, blood and drama.
Hardly a scandal topic is left out by the prince.
Prince Harry also addresses his time in military service.
The British Royal boasted that he killed 25 Taliban fighters.
He would feel no remorse for it.
This is reported by fr.de.
Prince Harry in Afghanistan: Killings were 'no satisfaction'
According to his autobiography, the prince regrets many of his decisions and life stages.
However, his military service in Afghanistan is not one of them.
In his bloody balance sheet there was "his number: 25", for which he had to take responsibility.
"It wasn't something that gave me satisfaction, but I wasn't ashamed either," Harry wrote on
Sky News
.
Other media that have already read it quote the prince as saying that in the heat of battle he no longer perceived the enemy as a human being.
“They were pawns taken off the board.
Bad people were eliminated before they could kill good people.”
Prince Harry on his mission to Afghanistan in early 2008.
(Archive photo) © epa MoD Cpl Rich Denton/dpa
Prince Harry served as an air traffic controller and Apache helicopter pilot in the British Army in Afghanistan for a few months before the royals' family member was withdrawn early over security concerns.
The Ministry of Defense declined to confirm the details of the biography when asked by
The Guardian
: "For security reasons, we do not comment on operational details," the British Ministry of Defense told the media.
Taliban member accuses Prince Harry of killing civilian victims
A senior Taliban member accused Prince Harry of war crimes.
“Those you killed weren't pawns, they were people;
they had families waiting for their return,” Anas Hakkani wrote on Twitter on Friday (January 6).
According to Hakkani, the 25 people killed were civilian casualties: "We checked and found that on the days that Prince Harry mentioned the killing of 25 mujahideen, there were no casualties in Helmand," the Taliban official said. Member speaking to
Al Jazeera
on Friday
.
The information cannot be independently verified.
According to
Sky News
, the prince admitted during the chapter that he'd rather not have that number on his military record or in his head.
"But I would have preferred to live in a world without the Taliban, in a world without war," writes the prince.
A military veteran told
Sky News
that Harry's comments would fuel further hatred towards him and paint a false picture of British military training.
It is by no means the case that British soldiers are taught to see their opponents as less human or as 'pawns'.
It's also not wise to brag about your kills.
Prince Harry's autobiography "Spare" pre-sold
Days before the official publication of his memoirs, the renegade royal's revelations are dominating the British headlines.
Many media have secured a copy.
The autobiography "Spare" accidentally hit the Spanish bookstores early on Thursday.
Since then, details have come to the public that put the prince in a bad light;
his memoirs should actually free him from his burdened image.
(aa/dpa)