UK prime minister Rishi Sunak declined to remark after Prince Harry claimed to have killed 25 folks as a helicopter pilot in Afghanistan. Requested if such a declare was appropriate, Rishi Sunak mentioned, “I would not touch upon issues to do with the royal household.”

“I might simply say I’m enormously grateful to our armed forces for the unimaginable job they do in holding us all protected. We’re all very lucky for his or her service,” he added.

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Following Prince Harry’s declare, a senior Taliban chief mentioned that the folks he killed in Afghanistan had been “not chess items, they had been people”.

Within the memoir, Prince Harry reportedly claimed that he killed 25 Taliban fighters, following which Anas Haqqani tweeted, “Mr. Harry! Those you killed weren’t chess items, they had been people; they’d households who had been ready for his or her return.”

“Among the many killers of Afghans, not many have your decency to disclose their conscience and confess to their struggle crimes,” Anas Haqqani mentioned.

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A former senior military officer instructed Sky Information that Prince Harry’s feedback about killing Taliban fighters had been “ill-judged”. Colonel Richard Kemp, who took command of British forces in Afghanistan in 2003 earlier than his retirement, mentioned that Prince Harry’s suggestion that British troopers are educated to see their enemies as “lower than human” was harmful.

“I feel they’re in all probability ill-judged for 2 causes. One is his suggestion that he killed 25 folks can have reincited these individuals who want him hurt” Colonel Richard Kemp mentioned.