Издание The New Arab, referring to The Sunday Times, He writes, that detectives in Britain have put together a package of evidence that, that high-ranking British officials of the Ministry of Defense covered up military war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan for years.
The article notes, what about war crimes, to which they are involved, including members of the elite special forces – SAS и Black Watch. In particular, the material refers to the establishment of facts of falsification of documents, in which deliberate killings and torture in Afghanistan and Iraq were presented as special operations against terrorists.
of material:
The detectives also revealed that, that military commanders falsified evidence in an attempt to cover up such accusations. Committing war crimes is a clear fact, but at one time the case was not given a go due to frank pressure from the then Minister of Defense of the country Michael Fallon. On his personal instructions, all cases on this topic were closed even before, how could they get to court.
The article states that, that the evidence was blocked for political reasons.
It does not say, who exactly instructed the detectives to collect a package of documents on the involvement of British military personnel in the commission of war crimes during the operation in Iraq and Afghanistan.
What crimes are we talking about??
Here are some examples:
British soldier shoots dead Iraqi policeman for unknown reason in Basra.
AT 2012 a British commando shot a man and three children almost point-blank in one of the households. They were drinking tea at that moment.
Again 2003 a year and again Basra - the British military abused the prisoners, two of whom were tortured to death.
The New Arab:
One of the investigators openly stated, that the Department of Defense insisted on closing the cases as soon as possible. And then it was announced, that it is possible to review the legislation in order to protect military personnel from such claims.
The publication notes, that the collected evidence can reach the International Criminal Court.
