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What Chilcot left out: over 1000 torture and unlawful killing legal claims in UK ; ICC

Also missing after all this time is any investigation of the MOTIVE for the criminal British promotion and entry in the war. Achieved by bribes? Blackmail? Macho male bonding? Economic threats?…..

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British soldier interrogating Iraqi prisoners at the Shaibah Logistics Base

Despite its size and the number of years it took to compile, the Chilcot Report, published last Wednesday, made only passing mention to the more than 1000 legal cases lodged by Iraqi civilians, alleging torture and unlawful killing by the British military. These cases are not only still being heard by the British authorities but also the International Criminal Court. Moreover, mllions of pounds in damages have already been awarded – an indication that the claims were/are valid. And the implication of course is that if the courts are agreeing that unlawful killing and/or torture took place by the British forces in Iraq, then responsibility for what happened should not merely limited to front-line troops, but to their commanders and, ultimately, those in government who authorised the operations. And that would include the ministers in charge of Defence and…

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‘Our Arrests are another Frame-Up’..District 14 Collective:

District 14: “Our arrest is a montage due to our struggle against forced evictions” #YoTambiénSoyD14

6 members of Distrito 14 Collective being detained

adaptted from diagonal en castellano abajo The six youths were arrested by the Information Brigade accused of participating in a fight but at the time of the events they were working in a stall at the Moratalaz Fiestas.

That same afternoon the press published that the detainees were accused of threatening and assaulting members of Citizens (Ciutadanos Party) during the Grand Fiestas of the Moratalaz neighborhood and that during election campaign activities, they had gone “Hunting Pijos”(preppies)

Last Wednesday, at 8 am, the Information Brigade arrested at their homes the six members of the collective District 14. “Some were preparing to attend a Stop Evictions Action convened in Parla and others to go to their jobs” said the group in a statement, in which they explain that the Information Brigade accused them of being involved in a fight, nothing more. Continue reading “‘Our Arrests are another Frame-Up’..District 14 Collective:”