The process for determining whether former members of Afghan special forces who served alongside British troops in Afghanistan can be resettled to the UK was a “disaster area” so terrible it could be likened to a “crime scene”, the High Court has heard.
Thousands of applications for sanctuary from Afghans with credible links to special forces units CF333 and ATF444, known as the Triples, were rejected by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). Their pleas for help were rebuffed by the government despite these units being paid and trained by the British and the soldiers fighting alongside UK special forces (UKSF) in Afghanistan.
