Recent UK military interventions authorised without parliamentary approval have relied on controversial legal justifications and have had a devastating impact on civilians overseas.
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Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights
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Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights
@CeasefireCentre
Empowering civilians to monitor and document violations of their rights and seek justice and accountability.
- To enhance democracy, ensure adherence to international law, and prevent civilian harm, we call on the new Labour government to strengthen democratic control over UK war powers. #CivilianRights #MilitaryAccountability
00:00 - The Dutch gov is finally being sued by victims for dropping a bomb on Hawija, #Iraq Ground-breaking case, both for scale and role of NL as coalition member.
- 'Precision' weapons in #Gaza : the MK-84 will have been fitted with a Pathway guidance system but it has a standard blast radius of 370m. Think about that in a residential area. 370m. Devastating. @inew @aoav #EWIPA #StopBombingCiviliansReplying to @muhammadshehad2
- Replying to @CeasefireCentreThe minister explicitly references 'detention and interrogations'. Yet under the Geneva Conventions, detention can never be violent in nature. Disgraceful words - and damaging to the reputation of the UK military. /3
- The right to #reparations in action: Most of Mosul’s old city remains destroyed from coalition bombing during the #ISIS conflict /SHORT THREAD
- In Lords' debate on #OverseasOperationsBill yesterday we heard probably the most explicit defence of torture yet by a British minister....
- So, the US drone team that killed humanitarian Mr Ahmadi and 9 family (incl 7 children) had “earnest belief” that it was a military target. But repeatedly claiming honest mistake does not absolve responsibility for #IHL violations. #PrecautionsInAttack @Drone_Wars_UK @APPGDronesBREAKING: A Pentagon review concludes that the U.S. drone strike that killed innocent Kabul civilians and children in the final days of the Afghanistan war was not caused by misconduct or negligence, and doesn't recommend disciplinary action, @AP learns. apne.ws/b30bj00
- Rita is right⬇️ And it is not just the Russians /Syrians. The international coalition practiced siege warfare against ISIS in both Mosul and Raqqa. Our new report on protecting civilians in contemporary #siege warfare is out at the end of this month: watch this space
- What happens to the civilian population caught in the grey zone between the traditional fields of application of human rights and the laws of war? #TheGreyZone ed. Mark Lattimer and @PhilippeSands is out now, London launch 12 Sept bloomsbury.com/au/the-grey-zo… @hartpublishing
- BREAKING: Congolese former militia boss Roger Lumbala arrested in France on charges of crimes against humanity, concerning atrocities in Ituri in the #DRC . #UJ #MappingReport (Photo may be subject to copyright) THREAD
- Replying to @CeasefireCentreBaroness Goldie : "We have not excluded other offences, including torture, because, in the course of their duties on overseas operations, we expect our service personnel to undertake activities which are intrinsically violent in nature." Inc interrogations
- How does the MoD really deal with civilian deaths, injury and damage from UK military ops? Join an exciting panel and details of our major new report on the UK’s record on #reparations beside that of 7 coalition partner states, incl US and NL. Register: tinyurl.com/mkpcn5z4
