{"id":56385,"date":"2023-07-03T02:41:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T17:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/jul\/02\/eighty-afghan-civilians-may-have-been-summarily-killed-by-sas-inquiry-told"},"modified":"2023-07-03T02:41:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T17:41:24","slug":"eighty-afghan-civilians-may-have-been-summarily-killed-by-sas-inquiry-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56385","title":{"rendered":"Eighty Afghan civilians may have been summarily killed by SAS, inquiry told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers for bereaved families allege British soldiers carried out policy of terminating all fighting-age men<\/p>\n<p>Eighty Afghans may have been victim of summary killings by three separate British SAS units operating in the country between 2010 and 2013, lawyers representing the bereaved families have told a public inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>One of the elite soldiers is believed to have \u201cpersonally killed\u201d 35 Afghans on a single six-month tour of duty as part of an alleged policy to terminate \u201call fighting-age males\u201d in homes raided, \u201cregardless of the threat they posed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/jul\/02\/eighty-afghan-civilians-may-have-been-summarily-killed-by-sas-inquiry-told\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers for bereaved families allege British soldiers carried out policy of terminating all fighting-age menEighty Afghans may have been victim of summary killings by three separate British SAS units operating in the country between 2010 and 2013, lawy&#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":[46,938,2290,61,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-military","category-ministry-of-defence","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56385","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=56385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56386,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56385\/revisions\/56386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}