ICC looks at allegations against UK troops in Iraq

NNN0LHI

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Mon Jul-28-03 11:08 AM
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ICC looks at allegations against UK troops in Iraq

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L2883917.htm

AMSTERDAM, July 28 (Reuters) - 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 court said in a statement.

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MetaTrope

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Mon Jul-28-03 11:44 AM
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1. So unlike our Junta, the Brits signed on?

Big "oops" there, Tony.

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salin

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Mon Jul-28-03 11:52 AM
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2. I wonder if this is related to the photograph story

of a month or so ago. Where a photoprocessing lab technician called the authorities after a recently returned soldier brought photos from Iraq in to be processed, and in which there appeared to be some very abusive treatment of the captured IRaqis.

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FatbackSlim

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Mon Jul-28-03 01:09 PM
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3. Already?

Doesn't the ICC get invovled only if the country in question isn't able or willing to handle its own investigations? I would think Great Britain would be both.

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