UK inquiry into allegations of SAS extra-judicial killings of Afghans to start

22/3/2023 12:15

        A public inquiry into allegations that members of British special forces carried out dozens of extra-judicial killings during night raids in Afghanistan gets underway in London on Wednesday.
        
        Britain's defence ministry ordered the inquiry after a BBC TV documentary last year reported that soldiers from the elite Special Air Service (SAS) had killed 54 people in suspicious circumstances.
        
        It also came after two families, who accuse the SAS of killing their relatives in 2011 and 2012, began legal action to demand judicial reviews of their cases.
        The inquiry, led by senior judge Charles Haddon-Cave, will examine whether there was unlawful activity by British military personnel between mid-2010 and mid-2013 during 'deliberate detention operations', and whether there is credible information of extra-judicial killings.
        
        It will also look at whether investigations by the Royal Military were properly conducted and if any unlawful killings were covered up.