{"id":59067,"date":"2023-10-09T08:01:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T23:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/oct\/09\/public-inquiry-to-open-claims-british-sas-soldiers-summary-killings-afghanistan"},"modified":"2023-10-09T08:01:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T23:01:03","slug":"inquiry-to-open-into-claims-british-soldiers-summarily-killed-80-afghans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59067","title":{"rendered":"Inquiry to open into claims British soldiers summarily killed 80 Afghans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public inquiry into alleged actions of SAS units to begin amid victims\u2019 families pleas for truth to be uncovered<\/p>\n<p>A public inquiry into allegations that 80 Afghans were summarily killed by members of three different British SAS units begins on Monday amid pleas from victims\u2019 families to uncover the truth behind the deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Mansour Aziz, whose brother and sister-in-law were shot and killed while sleeping by British elite forces during a night raid on 6 August 2012, said he hoped the inquiry would establish why his home had been targeted.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/oct\/09\/public-inquiry-to-open-claims-british-sas-soldiers-summary-killings-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public inquiry into alleged actions of SAS units to begin amid victims\u2019 families pleas for truth to be uncoveredA public inquiry into allegations that 80 Afghans were summarily killed by members of three different British SAS units begins on Monday ami&#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":[46,937,938,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-british-army","category-military","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\/59067","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=59067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59068,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59067\/revisions\/59068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}