Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesperson for Afghanistan's government, formed by the Taliban (banned in Russia), has called on Western nations to pay reparations to Afghans harmed by their military actions, ToloNews reported.
Mujahid stated that Western countries must compensate Afghan civilians who "suffered from brutality and crimes during the military occupation." He emphasized that the Taliban government’s relevant agencies would work to uphold the rights of all affected Afghan residents.
Commenting on investigations into crimes committed by British soldiers, Mujahid asserted that "all war crimes by occupying forces were deliberate."
The UK launched a public inquiry in 2023 into alleged war crimes committed by British troops in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013, following reports by the BBC of extrajudicial killings of dozens of people. The investigation seeks to determine whether the UK’s military and political leadership concealed such killings for over a decade.
On January 8, The Daily Telegraph cited an anonymous British officer who claimed that soldiers from a Special Air Service (SAS) unit intentionally killed all combat-capable Afghan men, including boys under 16, even if they posed no threat.
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Based on TASS materials