This accusation can hardly be surpassed in terms of hypocrisy!
Ironically, the Taliban accuse Prince Harry (38) of being a war criminal. Because the British exile royal claimed in his autobiography that he killed 25 of the terrorists during his time as a soldier in Afghanistan.
For the Taliban leader Anas Haqqani (29), the fighters killed are not unscrupulous Islamists who wanted to catapult Afghanistan into the Stone Age, but “innocent” fathers. “Mr. Harry! Those you killed weren’t pawns, they were people. They had families waiting for their return.”
▶︎ Background: Harry was a British Army helicopter pilot stationed in Afghanistan in 2007 and 2012. The killed Taliban felt like “chess pieces” falling off the board, he wrote in his biography.
Harry during his deployment in Afghanistan in November 2012
Just weeks earlier, a Taliban terrorist blew himself up in one of countless suicide bombings that claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians
Anas Haqqani, brother of the Taliban “Interior Minister” Sirajuddin Haqqani, would like to take Harry to court for alleged war crimes. “I have no hope that the International Criminal Court will summon you or human rights activists will convict you because you are blind and deaf. But hopefully these crimes will be remembered in human history.”
A completely absurd request!
▶︎ Then: The war in Afghanistan (2001-2021) was legal under international law, making the Taliban legitimate targets and not innocent civilians.
The Taliban rule Afghanistan with an iron fist
In fact, the Stone Age Islamists are themselves guilty of countless war crimes. Hundreds of civilians died in their terrorist attacks, they executed teachers and tortured their enemies.
The balance sheet since the Taliban took power in August 2021? One disaster. According to the United Nations, six million Afghans are suffering from hunger, three million of them are children. They are even acutely malnourished. Around half of the almost 40 million people are dependent on humanitarian aid. Violators of Sharia are publicly flogged or executed. Women were banned from universities and schools.
One of three million malnourished children in Afghanistan
