Polish General Promises to Investigate Video by Jason Ditz Antiwar Forum - August 13, 2010 The Polish Army is promising an investigation following the release of a video showing Polish troops blowing up an Afghan home. An officer serving at the time told the Polish daily that released the report that “it was done for fun.” [...]
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Robert Fisk: Israel has crept into the EU without anyone noticing
Independent - 31 July 2010 The death of five Israeli servicemen in a helicopter crash in Romania this week raised scarcely a headline. There was a Nato-Israeli exercise in progress. Well, that’s OK then. Now imagine the death of five Hamas fighters in a helicopter crash in Romania this week. We’d still be investigating this extraordinary [...]
US actors, intellectuals protest Obama ‘crimes’
Breitbart - 13 May 2010 US actors and liberal intellectuals joined a list to be published Friday of nearly 2,000 people accusing President Barack Obama of allowing human rights violations and war crimes. “Crimes are crimes, no matter who does them,” the statement reads over pictures of Obama and his predecessor George W. Bush due [...]
Army to be sued for war crimes over its role in Fallujah attacks
Parents of children with birth defects say Britain knew of US chemical weapons use By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor Independent - 4 May 2010 Allegations that Britain was complicit in the use of chemical weapons linked to an upsurge in child deformity cases in Iraq, are being investigated by the Ministry of Defence.
Drone Pilots Could Be Tried for ‘War Crimes,’ Law Prof Says
Nathan Hodge Wired – 29 April 2010 The pilots waging America’s undeclared drone war in Pakistan could be liable to criminal prosecution for “war crimes,” a prominent law professor told a Congressional panel Wednesday. Harold Koh, the State Department’s top legal adviser, outlined the administration’s legal case for the robotic attacks last month. Now, some [...]
Blair War Crimes Foundation
John Pilger, David Halpin, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Ken Loach, Noam Chomsky, Richard Dawkins, Lindsey German, Ben Griffin, Dr Nawal Saadawi, Haifa Zangana, Mark Steel, Dr Kamil Mahdi, Bruce Kent, and other citizens of Spain, Argentine, USA, and UK, support a Blair War Crimes Foundation to seek signatures for a petition to the United Nations General Assembly [...]
British lawmaker Gerald Kaufman calls Gaza blockade ‘evil’
By ASSOCIATED PRESS The Jerusalem Post - 15 January 2010 RAFAH - Israelis who authorized the use of white phosphorous in densely populated Gaza should be tried for war crimes, British Labour Party legislator Gerald Kaufman said Friday, after entering the Strip with 60 European parliamentarians. The lawmakers are visiting Gaza to draw attention to the territory’s [...]
UK troops ‘executed Iraqi grandmother’
Royal Military Police investigate latest allegation of abuse in Basra By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor Independent – 11 January 2010 Allegations that a 62-year-old Iraqi grandmother was tortured and executed by British soldiers after her family home was raided three years ago are being investigated by the Royal Military Police. The Army’s involvement in the [...]
Israeli army officers fear arrest in UK
Visit cancelled over threat of prosecution for alleged war crimes against Palestinians By Ben Lynfield in Jerusalem Independent – 6 January 2010 A group of Israeli army officers has cancelled a visit to Britain because London was unable to guarantee they would not be arrested for alleged war crimes under universal jurisdiction provisions, Israeli officials said [...]
Researchers: US Arms Used for War Crimes in Gaza
Researchers: Erin Galbraith and Curtis Harrison – Faculty Evaluators: Andy Merrifield, PhD, Cynthia Boaz, PhD, and David McCuan, PhD Sonoma State University Sabbah Report – 1 January 2010 Israel’s repeated firing of US-made white phosphorus shells over densely populated areas of Gaza during its recent military campaign was indiscriminate and is evidence of war crimes, [...]
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