The Taliban government has vowed that the Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry, will appear before the International Court of Justice over his admission to killing 25 Afghan soldiers.
On Friday, Khalid Zadran, the Taliban’s police spokesman, made this statement in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital.
According to The Telegraph, Zadran reacted to Prince Harry’s revelation that as an Apache helicopter pilot during the war, he killed 25 Taliban fighters.
The Duke of Sussex detailed in his upcoming memoir, Spare, how he flew six missions during his second tour in Afghanistan in 2012, killing 25 Taliban.
“Prince Harry will always be remembered in Helmand – Afghans will never forget the killing of their innocent countrymen,” a Taliban official responded.
“Perpetrators of such crimes will one day be brought before the international court, and criminals like Harry who proudly confess their crimes will be brought before the international community.”
Zadran went on to say that Prince Harry’s description of those he had killed as “chess pieces” and his claim that he was “neither proud nor ashamed” of his actions was “cruel,” “barbaric,” and had legitimised the Taliban’s deadly insurgency against NATO troops in Afghanistan.
“Occupying forces in Afghanistan used to launch operations on our villages at nightfall. “Prince Harry was involved in this, and he killed dozens of defenseless Afghans,” Zadran said.