General Sir Richard Barrons, who served 12 years in the British Army in Afghanistan, tells BBC Newsnight that the UK’s failure to move these soldiers “is a shame because it reflects that we are either duplicitous as a nation, or being incompetent.”
A former British general calls abandoning the Afghan elite troops to their fate a form of “betrayal” and a “disgrace”, the BBC writes.
In 2021, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the British Parliament that the deployment of these Afghan special forces had been “incredibly important.” He added that the UK would do “everything we can” to get “safe passage” for them, the BBC said.