Published: July 30, 2020
Inquiry into Operation Burnham did not confirm any of the eight killed in 2010 raid were insurgents
A damning report into a raid in Afghanistan led by New Zealand special forces has revealed an Afghan child was among at least eight people killed in the operation and that the Defence Force misled senior leaders and ministers about the incident.
At least seven men were killed in the SAS raid, and the inquiry did not confirm any to be insurgents. Two men had possible links to an insurgent group and the inquiry declined to decide whether two other men were insurgents. Three more were later deemed by intelligence to be insurgents but the inquiry found there was insufficient evidence.
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