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🗓️ 3 August 2020
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A High Court case been brought by a young man whose family were shot dead by a rogue SAS unit in Afghanistan. The trial has led to the release of documents which suggest a horrifying pattern of night-raid killings, cover-ups and ‘collective amnesia’ by soldiers in a crack army special forces unit.
Guests:
Jonathan Calvert, Insight Editor, The Sunday Times.
George Arbuthnott, Deputy Insight Editor, The Sunday Times.
David Collins, Northern Correspondent, The Sunday Times.
Host: Manveen Rana
Clips used: Guardian, CNN, BBC.
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0:00.0 | This story starts in February 2011 in a little compound in Afghanistan. |
0:12.0 | There was a big family sleeping in the compound and they were woken around about 1 o'clock in the morning |
0:18.0 | by the screaming sound of helicopters coming down. |
0:22.0 | There were great chooks and a couple of small attack helicopters |
0:27.0 | had settled in and around the compound. |
0:30.0 | When they weren't to look outside, |
0:32.0 | they could see dim figures of soldiers coming at them from the darkness. |
0:36.0 | They had the kind of infrared sights flicking the windows and doorways of the building. |
0:42.0 | These were British troops and they asked all the inhabitants of the house to step outside. |
0:49.0 | So they all came out one by one, you know, hands in the air into the courtyard, and the women and children were sent off to a |
0:56.6 | out building at the side, and the men were plastic cuff, by which I mean they had these plastic handcuffs around their wrists in front of them, |
1:07.0 | and they were hooded. |
1:08.0 | We have spoke at length to Cy Fuller, who was at the time was a 19 year old, |
1:15.0 | and he less saw his father been plasticuffed and hooded. |
1:20.0 | Because he was younger, Cy Fuller was sent with the women and children to a different building. |
1:26.0 | The raid went on around them for about an hour and a half. |
1:30.0 | While Seyfula was in the outhouse, he could hear shots occasionally, bursts of gunfire. |
1:37.0 | Eventually, the soldiers said they were leaving and they weren't to leave the outhouse until the helicopters are gone and once the helicopters |
1:45.2 | gone he went back into the house to try and find his father and when he got to his father's bedroom |
1:51.5 | he found his father there slumped against a wall with 8 to 10 bullet holes mostly in his head. |
2:00.0 | As Seifula walked around the, he found a trail of bodies riddled with bullets, an uncle, a cousin, his brother. |
2:11.0 | They looked to the family as if they've been shot in the back while they were running away. |
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