‘ICC Prosecutor Drops Alleged UK War Crimes In Iraq’
December 11, 2020
3:36 am
The International Criminal Court of Justice has dropped the war crime case against the United Kingdom despite finding evidence of war crime, the report says.
The prosecutor in a statement on Wednesday said she was dropping a preliminary probe into alleged war crimes by British troops in Iraq, even though she found a reasonable basis to believe they committed atrocities.
Information available said that the probe never rose to the level of a full investigation and Fatou Bensouda’s office concluded that British authorities had examined the allegations. It also said the ICC only intervenes when it finds that a state …
