British human rights lawyer Phil Shiner is poised to provide broad evidence collected from hundreds of Iraqis describing the “systemic” abuse of prisoners by British soldiers during the Iraqi occupation.
The first round of statements is to be presented to a London high court on Tuesday, and will include reports of both physical and sexual abuse by British soldiers. 180 statements are to be presented Tuesday, with nearly a thousand more expected in the future.
Shiner says that British government claims of “bad apples” in the military doesn’t stand up to the sheer volume of abuse claims, and that along with training materials and policy documents shows that violence against Iraqi detainees was an inherent part of British government practice.
The argument is not simply rhetorical. If the British court concludes that the abuse was indeed “systemic,” it would oblige the British government to launch a full inquiry into the abuse as a member of the European Convention on Human Rights. The British government has mostly shrugged off such claims, citing national security, and claiming that incidents in which detainees were beaten to death were “isolated.”
"to initiate a war of aggression…is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." Also not simply rhetorical…for one thing, in this case and if principles were applied consistently, it means hangings.
The bits have always done this but kept it hidden now the s''it has hit the fan it will all come out her sister in N.america torture humans until the die no excuses given.
Neo Fascism and its Neo Fascism in uniform in occupying countries.., This is the result of vulture capitalism political and social economic culture.