Cover-up of war crimes in Afghanistan by a British general

The British press reported that a general in that country was hiding evidence of war crimes in Afghanistan. Gavin Jenkins, a senior British army general, has been accused of covering up war crimes in Afghanistan despite receiving written evidence. According to British media reports, the general was told in 2011 that the RAF had killed a group of Afghan detainees. Jenkins responded by saying that a full investigation was needed in this area, but he suppressed the evidence. According to available data, the fact of non-transfer of documents to the military police has already been revealed in court. But the identities of the officers involved in the case were hidden from the public by the British Ministry of Defense. After the media and some people reported overnight attacks by British special forces on Afghan citizens, alleged killings carried out by these forces in Afghanistan are now the subject of an official investigation led by a judge at Britain's Royal Court. Last year, the BBC said in a report that British special forces had deliberately killed at least 54 Afghans during a six-month mission under suspicious circumstances. In March 2011, an officer told General Jenkins that a member of Britain's Special Air Force had admitted that members of the country's armed forces had unlawfully killed unarmed people and detainees during night raids. But British military police investigators told the BBC they were not allowed to conduct a full and independent investigation into the special forces killings.