A senior Taliban leader on Friday responded to Prince Harry's claim that he viewed the 25 Taliban soldiers he killed in Afghanistan as 'chess pieces' instead of people.
A senior Taliban leader on Friday responded to Prince Harry's claim that he viewed the 25 Taliban soldiers he killed in Afghanistan as"chess pieces" instead of people.
“It was not something that filled me with satisfaction, but I was not ashamed either,” the prince wrote, according to Sky News, which obtained a copy of the book.Taliban leader Anas Haqqani heatedly responded to the passage, slamming the British prince for not viewing the rebels as people with families.
1/3- Mr. Harry! The ones you killed were not chess pieces, they were humans; they had families who were waiting for their return. Among the killers of Afghans, not many have your decency to reveal their conscience and confess to their war crimes. pic.twitter.com/zjDwoDmCN1The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan after the United States withdrew its forces in 2021.
"The other problem I found with his comments was that he characterized the British Army basically as having trained him and other soldiers to see his enemy as less than human, just as chess pieces on a board to be swiped off, which is not the case. It's the opposite of the case," Kemp told Sky News.
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