“Evidence of war crimes carried out by soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.” Scandal threatens the British army

The British government and military have been accused of covering up the killing of civilians by British forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.

British investigators have found “credible” new evidence of war crimes committed by British soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a BBC and Sunday Times investigation with 11 British investigators working on the case.

According to investigators, “the Ministry of Defense does not intend to prosecute any military of any rank, but trying to evade the charges as much as possible,” stressing that it carried out its operations “according to the law,” noting that it has conducted extensive scrutiny about those allegations.

But investigators stress the need to prosecute some soldiers for “premeditated murder.”

A former investigator said victims of war crimes had felt a great letdown: “I’m using a disgusting word … and I feel families because they don’t get justice. How can you hold yourself as a British person?”

A rare case being investigated is the shooting of an Iraqi policeman who was on a routine patrol in Basra in 2003.

“All the allegations, which contained evidence, were examined and the British Ministry of Defense said it rejected” an unfounded allegation of a pattern of cover-up, the British Foreign Office said in a statement.