Khalid Zadran and Prince Harry. Image: SaharaReporters.
A senior Taliban official, Khalid Zadran, on Friday, called for British Prince Harry to face the International Court over his killing of 25 people in Afghanistan during his time as a soldier fighting the Taliban.
Zadran, the Taliban’s police spokesman in Kabul said the "cruel and barbaric" actions of Harry and others "had legitimized the Taliban’s deadly insurgency against NATO troops in Afghanistan."
In his upcoming memoir, ‘Spare,’ Prince Harry confessed that he killed more than two dozen people in Afghanistan.
According to The Telegraph, which got an excerpt from the book, Harry said the army taught him not to see the Taliban as people. He further stated that the number of people he killed as an Apache attack helicopter pilot makes him "neither proud nor ashamed.”
In a statement, Zadran said Prince Harry will always be remembered in the Helmand province of Afghanistan, and that Afghans will never forget the killing of their innocent countrymen.
"Prince Harry will always be remembered in Helmand - Afghans will never forget the killing of their innocent countrymen.
"The perpetrators of such crimes will one day be brought to the international court and criminals like Harry who proudly confess their crimes will be brought to the court table in front of the international community.
"Prince Harry’s description of those he had killed as "chess pieces" and that he was "neither proud nor ashamed" of his actions, was "cruel", "barbaric" and that such actions had legitimized the Taliban’s deadly insurgency against NATO troops in Afghanistan.
"Occupying forces in Afghanistan used to start operations under nightfall on our villages. Prince Harry was involved in this and he has taken the lives of dozens of defenseless Afghans.
"The cruel and barbaric actions of Harry and others aroused the Afghan population and led to an armed uprising against them. We call this kind of uprising holy jihad," Zadran added.
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