General Concealed Evidence of SAS Executions at Highest Level

According to BBC Panorama, a top UK general was warned in 2011 about allegations that SAS soldiers in Afghanistan were claiming to have executed captives in violation of international law. Gen Gwyn Jenkins, who is now the second highest-ranking officer in the British armed forces, received accounts of conversations where SAS members described unlawful killings. Instead of reporting the evidence to military police, Gen Jenkins compiled the information into a classified dossier and stored it in a safe. This failure to act was previously revealed in court, but the Ministry of Defence had concealed the officers' identities. Gen Jenkins, who was a colonel in special forces at the time, shared the evidence with his superior, Gen Jonathan Page, and created the dossier. It is legally required for commanding officers to inform military police if there is evidence of a potential war crime. The dossier remained locked away for four years until a special forces whistleblower revealed its existence to the Royal Military Police. The allegations of extrajudicial killings by British special forces in Afghanistan are currently being investigated in a public inquiry. Last year, it was exposed that one SAS squadron had suspiciously killed 54 people during a six-month tour in 2011.