Scotland Yard to investigate Tony Blair and ex-Attorney General Peter Goldsmith for war crimes
Press Conference,
Room C, 1 Parliament Street
Tuesday 15th January 2008 3pm
John McDonnell MP, Chris Coverdale: International War Law Expert and Annie Machon of the Campaign to Make War History brief MPs and the media on allegations of war crimes committed against the people of Iraq by Britain's former Prime Minister and former Attorney General.
Officers from Scotland Yard have commenced a criminal investigation into the deaths of Iraqi citizens killed during the armed invasion and occupation of Iraq. The Metropolitan Police are acting in response to crimes reported by peace activists from We Are Change UK and The Campaign to Make War History. In an unprecedented step, the case was handed to the War Crimes division of the Counter Terrorism branch who are now investigating allegations of 14 criminal offences committed by Tony Blair, Lord Goldsmith and others. The offences are under the International Criminal Court Act 2001, which came into effect under English common law, just two days before 9/11.
Two Members of We Are Change UK and a representative from the Campaign to Make War History were interviewed for six hours at Belgravia Police station on the 20th December 2007. Evidence was provided to the police relating to the crimes of:-
• genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and conduct ancillary to these crimes under Sections 51 and 52 of The International Criminal Court Act 2001.
• a crime against peace and complicity in a crime against peace under Articles 6 and 7 of The Nuremburg Principles.
• murder, incitement to murder and conspiracy to murder under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861.
• conspiracy to commit genocide, a crime against humanity and war crimes under the Criminal Law Act 1977.
i must have missed all this, 15th january the date is ... lets all keep our fingers crossed they shouldn't have a leg to stand on, kofi annan said the invasion was illegal under internal law ... if we apply the nuremburg standards to our actions blair doesn't stand a chance ... but you know how things work, the powerful rarely pay for their crimes ...
Mandy wrote:It definitely has been ignored .. for such a major article.
imagine if say ahmadinejad or castro were being investigated for war crimes - it would be on the front of every news paper, on every news program - it would be everywhere.
instead we're getting stories of russell sprout, the weather and david beckham not getting his hundredth cap
cheers for posting that Luke - I'd probably never have seen it otherwise.
Good on them for chasing this up and keeping it going. I'd happily see Blair sitting for years in a cell in the Hague like Milosovic... slowly decaying like a rotting apple until one day he does the decent thing.
they shouldn't have a leg to stand on, kofi annan said the invasion was illegal under internal law ... if we apply the nuremburg standards to our actions blair doesn't stand a chance ... but you know how things work, the powerful rarely pay for their crimes ...
