{"id":51169,"date":"2022-12-15T22:33:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T13:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/dec\/15\/inquiry-launched-into-claims-sas-soldiers-killed-afghan-civilians"},"modified":"2022-12-15T22:33:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T13:33:35","slug":"inquiry-launched-into-claims-sas-soldiers-killed-afghan-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51169","title":{"rendered":"Inquiry launched into claims SAS soldiers killed Afghan civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MoD concedes to longstanding demands for statutory inquiry into allegations dating back to 2010<\/p>\n<p>Ministers have announced a statutory judge-led inquiry into allegations of more than 50 summary killings by SAS soldiers in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/afghanistan\">Afghanistan<\/a>, a decision made after years of reports that elite British troops killed civilians in cold blood.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to the House of Commons, Andrew Murrison, the minister for defence people, said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) would concede to longstanding demands for an \u201cindependent statutory inquiry\u201d after years of dismissing the idea. The inquiry will cover the period from mid-2010 to mid-2013.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/dec\/15\/inquiry-launched-into-claims-sas-soldiers-killed-afghan-civilians\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MoD concedes to longstanding demands for statutory inquiry into allegations dating back to 2010Ministers have announced a statutory judge-led inquiry into allegations of more than 50 summary killings by SAS soldiers in Afghanistan, a decision made afte&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,937,938,2290,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-british-army","category-military","category-ministry-of-defence","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51170,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51169\/revisions\/51170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}