Anas Haqqani, a senior Taliban official, has blasted Prince Harry for his claims in an autobiography revealing that he killed 25 people while serving as a helicopter pilot during the war in Afghanistan.
«Henry. Those you killed were not chess pieces. They were human beings who had families waiting for their return,» said Haqqani, a former member of the Taliban negotiating team and brother of current Interior Minister and Haqqani Network leader Sirajudin Haqqani.
«Among the murderers of Afghans not many have the decency to reveal their conscience and confess their war crimes,» he said on his Twitter account, before stressing that «the truth is what he said: the innocent people were chess pieces for their soldiers and political and military leaders.»
However, Haqqani has stated that the British «were defeated in that black and white board ‘game’.» «I do not expect the International Criminal Court (ICC) to summon you to testify or human rights activists to condemn you because they are deaf and blind to you. Hopefully these atrocities will be remembered in human history,» he concluded.
Henry, who served in the Army for ten years, rising to the rank of captain, recounts in his autobiography that he did not think of those 25 lives as «people» but as «chess pieces» on a chessboard, the British newspaper ‘The Telegraph’ reported Thursday.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
