Prince Harry continues with the after-sales service of his memoirs, published on Tuesday, January 10, worldwide. Guest Tuesday night on the set of late show by Stephen Colbert, Harry answered questions from the American host and provided some updates.
“I am not going to lie to you, these last few days have been painful and difficult. Above all, not being able to do anything with the leaks.”
Extensive excerpts from his book, alternateIt was revealed and commented on in the press, even before its official publication, specifically after being put up for sale by mistake in Spain.
“It’s a lie”
The prince thus regretted that these passages have been taken out of context, which caused an avalanche of criticism. “Context is everything.” “Them [les tabloïds britanniques] have intentionally chosen to remove the context and […] to make headlines.”
“Without a doubt their most dangerous lie is that they said I bragged about the number of people I killed in Afghanistan.”
“That’s a lie. But I hope that now that the book is out, people can see the context.”
tabloids like him daily mail In fact, they have led the fact that the prince revealed in his book that he had killed 25 Taliban, and that for him they were not people but “pieces of a chess game that we made disappear from the board.”
“One of the most heinous crimes”
In the book, the prince dedicates several paragraphs to her. He “could keep an exact count of the enemy combatants he had killed in real time. And this figure, which I considered vital to always keep in mind, is at the top of the list.
He also writes: “Naturally, I would have preferred not to have this number on my military resume, nor in my head, but I would have preferred to live in a world without the Taliban and without war.” He also recalls that this war against terrorism, launched by the Americans after the attacks of September 11, 2001, “was to punish one of the most heinous crimes in the history of the world and so that it does not happen again.”
Excerpts from his book, broadcast by the press, earned him criticism even within the army. In fact, some officers have felt that we didn’t behave that way in the army, and that his disclosures risked being dangerous to him.
In fact, the Taliban reacted quickly, emphasizing that “those who killed were not chess pieces, they were human beings” and called for the prince to be brought to justice.
Source: BFM TV
