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**shinesw** · 11-10-2007, 01:05 PM

The UN Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI) has said it is considering charging private security guards hired to support US-led forces in Iraq with war crimes or crimes against humanity for killing civilians.

"International humanitarian rights law applies to them as well," Ivana Vuco, a human rights officer with the agency, said on Thursday.

"We will be stressing that in our communications with US authorities. This includes the responsibility to investigate to supervise and prosecute those accused of wrongdoing," Vuco said.

UNAMI also expressed concern that too many Iraqi civilians are being killed in US military operations.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...463975377A.htm I'd forgotten all about the UN. I wonder if their intervention will assist prosecutions ?

11-10-2007, 01:05 PM	#1
shinesw Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 477 Senior Member	The UN Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI) has said it is considering charging private security guards hired to support US-led forces in Iraq with war crimes or crimes against humanity for killing civilians. "International humanitarian rights law applies to them as well," Ivana Vuco, a human rights officer with the agency, said on Thursday. "We will be stressing that in our communications with US authorities. This includes the responsibility to investigate to supervise and prosecute those accused of wrongdoing," Vuco said. UNAMI also expressed concern that too many Iraqi civilians are being killed in US military operations. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...463975377A.htm I'd forgotten all about the UN. I wonder if their intervention will assist prosecutions ? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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