The International Criminal Court (ICC) is reportedly expected to look into hundreds of new cases accusing British soldiers of abusing civilians in Iraq between 2003 and 2008.
Orwellian Zionist Shill UK BANNED Press TV: The Hague-based court will review the cases which detail torture techniques such as rape, sexual assaults, electrocution, sleep deprivation, beating and hooding used by British forces in Iraq during interrogations in the period, the Independent reported on Sunday.
The cases, which have been presented by lawyers and human right activists, accuse UK troops of abusing Iraqi children, women and men aged between 13 and 101.
In one of the cases, an Iraqi policeman died after British soldiers “forced his head into a bucket of cold water a number of times. He stopped breathing and died. His wife and children witnessed the soldiers killing him.”
The Independent report comes ahead of the publication of an official report into allegations that British forces mistreated and unlawfully killed Iraqis back in 2004.
The report, due to be released on Wednesday, is likely to fuel anger against the British government, which reportedly was aware of the torture techniques by the US spy agency CIA.
Earlier this week, Angus Robertson MP, the defense spokesman of the Scottish National Party (SNP), called for an immediate publication of the findings of the long-awaited Chilcot inquiry into the UK’s role in the Iraq war.
UK forces participated in the US-led invasion of Iraq in a blatant violation of international law in 2003 under the pretext that the regime of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. No such weapons were ever discovered in Iraq.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the SNP lawmaker further accused the British government of failing to act urgently “despite the appalling findings of the US Senate report about inhumane treatment of detainees.”
On December 9, the US Senate Intelligence Committee released a truncated report on the CIA’s so-called Terror War, which detailed torture techniques it used during the term of former US President George W. Bush.
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The cases, which have been presented by lawyers and human right activists, accuse UK troops of abusing Iraqi children, women and men aged between 13 and 101.
In one of the cases, an Iraqi policeman died after British soldiers “forced his head into a bucket of cold water a number of times. He stopped breathing and died. His wife and children witnessed the soldiers killing him.”
The Independent report comes ahead of the publication of an official report into allegations that British forces mistreated and unlawfully killed Iraqis back in 2004.
The report, due to be released on Wednesday, is likely to fuel anger against the British government, which reportedly was aware of the torture techniques by the US spy agency CIA.
Earlier this week, Angus Robertson MP, the defense spokesman of the Scottish National Party (SNP), called for an immediate publication of the findings of the long-awaited Chilcot inquiry into the UK’s role in the Iraq war.
UK forces participated in the US-led invasion of Iraq in a blatant violation of international law in 2003 under the pretext that the regime of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. No such weapons were ever discovered in Iraq.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the SNP lawmaker further accused the British government of failing to act urgently “despite the appalling findings of the US Senate report about inhumane treatment of detainees.”
On December 9, the US Senate Intelligence Committee released a truncated report on the CIA’s so-called Terror War, which detailed torture techniques it used during the term of former US President George W. Bush.
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