In his book “The Substitute”, Prince Harry admits to having killed 25 people during his missions in Afghanistan. The power in place in this country accused him of “war crimes”.
The “Substitute” continues to be talked about, indeed the prince harry, in the work of the same name, revealed that during his missions in Afghanistan he allegedly killed 25 people. The book published by Fayard editions on January 10, 2023 reveals many other indiscretions about the life of Prince Harry and his entourage.
The Duke of Sussex, now exiled in the United States, claimed to have killed 25 “Taliban” in Afghanistan, as reported The Daily Telegraph. During his youth in the British army, he was deployed on Afghan territory twice, however he would have committed these executions during his second mission in 2012. Comparing these people killed to “chess pieces “that had to be put” out of play “, he affirms that his training in the army allowed him to learn that you cannot eliminate a target “if you consider it as a person”.
The cadet of King Charles III clarified that he counted the number of victims thanks to the cameras on board the helicopter in which he was during this second deployment. However, the prince did not express remorse: “It is not a number that gave me satisfaction, but it is not a number that made me ashamed either,” he wrote. For the former soldier, these Taliban were “eliminated bad guys”.
Shocking revelations in the UK
If Harry’s revelations about his time in Afghanistan have, of course, shocked British society, they have also aroused the ire of certain soldiers in the country. Colonel Richard Kemp, who was interviewed by sky news, called the remarks “unwelcome” which could lead to reprisals against British soldiers. The soldier, who led the British armed forces in Afghanistan in 2003, said of Harry: “He characterized the British army as an army that basically trained him and the other soldiers to see his enemies as less than human beings (…), which is not the case. It is even the opposite.”
The colonel even indicated that these revelations in the book constituted a danger against the prince himself. Still on the British channel, the soldier said that Harry had “weakened his personal security, he shot himself in the foot”. A former member of the Royal Marines, Ben Mcbean also tweeted his displeasure: “n love you Prince Harry but you must shut up!”. Ben Mcbean also wondered about Harry’s entourage “who should have told him to stop” publishing this kind of sensitive information.
Critics of the Taliban
The revelations of the former helicopter pilot were strongly criticized by the Afghan authorities. Anas Haqqani, a senior Taliban official, took offense at Twitter. “Mr. Harry! Those you killed were not chess pieces, they were humans; they had families waiting for them to return,” he posted on social media. In another tweet, the leader said he was pessimistic about a possible conviction from the International Criminal Court, “deaf” and “blind” to Harry.
Yet, as shared sky news, a relative of Afghan victims who died in 2011, before Prince Harry’s missions, demanded that he be tried in court. “We call on the international community to judge this person [le prince Harry] and we should get compensation for our losses,” reported the British media.