Prince Harry’s memoir ‘Spare’: ‘25 kills’ revelation attracts Taliban leaders’ ire. See what did they say

Giving a sharp reaction over the disclosure, a senior Taliban leader said on social media that the militants he killed in Afghanistan were humans and not chess pieces.

In a recent tweet, Anas Haqqani, who is a senior aide to the interior minister, said, “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.”

Bilal Karimi, another official of the Taliban government, said that the admission of Harry showed that these crimes were not limited to just anyone, and every occupier had a history of such crimes.

In the highly anticipated book ‘Spare’, Harry revealed that he killed 25 fighters and he seems to have not thought of them as “people”, but as “chess pieces” that had been taken off the board, media reports said.

Harry had added that it was not something that filled him with satisfaction, but he was also not ashamed of it.

Colonel Richard Kemp, who had taken charge of the British forces in Afghanistan in 2003, told a media outlet that comments of Harry were “ill-judged” and could lead to an attack on British soldiers.

The suggestion of Harry that UK soldiers are trained to see enemies as “less than human” was dangerous, Colonel Kemp added.

People, who support the Taliban government, may now be motivated to take revenge on Harry because of the memories which have been resurrected by these comments. Let’s hope they don’t succeed, Colonel Kemp also added.

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