The United Nations Committee Against Torture is asking the New Zealand Government to fully investigate the 2010 Afghan raid, as part of a list of issues to be responded to by 2019.

Hit & Run, by investigative journalists Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson, alleges six civilians were killed and 15 were injured in Operation Burnham.

Further, it alleges that, supported by US and Afghan forces, the Special Air Service (SAS) burned and blew up about a dozen houses and failed to help the wounded.

The United Nations Committee Against Torture has released a list of questions for New Zealand to answer prior to an examination by the committee in Geneva. The date for the examination is likely to be in 2019.

The question relating to the Afghan raid allegations says:

"Please indicate what measures the State party has put in place to ensure that all allegations relating to 'Operation Burnham', a raid of two villages in the Baghlan province in Afghanistan by the New Zealand Defence Forces on 22 August 2010, will be fully investigated and addressed."