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UK to face war crimes court for attrocities in Iraq
The prosecutor of the world's first permanent war crimes court will review a dossier containing allegations of human rights abuses by British troops in Iraq, the court said on Monday. Members of the Athens Bar Association have called on International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo to investigate 22 alleged incidents involving British forces in the war. The Greek lawyers handed a dossier containing 74 press reports and 13 video tapes of news reports from the war in Iraq to the prosecutor. The ICC has received around 500 complaints from 66 countries since the global court came into force in July 2002. It has not yet initiated a full investigation. Both Britain and Greece are among 91 countries which recognise and support the court. More than 100 complaints so far have concerned the US-led war in Iraq. America claims immunity from these courts which are setup to provide justice against the attrocities commited by government despite the fact that its forces have killed hundreds of innocent civilians in Iraq recently and many more in the previous attacks on different countries, not to mention the biggest war crime ever in the recorded history — the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki whose after effects can still be seen in that area.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-07-30 |
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