Damascus-Sana
A new scandal adds to the record of crimes committed by British forces in Iraq. Days after leaked documents about the involvement of British soldiers and ministers in the killing and torture of children and civilians emerged further evidence of the establishment of secret prisons by Britain and the United States during the few months after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the disappearance of detainees International organizations to be deported to unknown destinations.
The story of secret prisons, known as "black sites" run by Washington in various places around the world, especially in allied countries, is not new, but the most recent revelation in a report in the newspaper "Middle East I" of the establishment of such prisons in conspiracy with Britain in Anbar desert in Iraq is part of the scandals revealed recently about the violations of British forces and crimes committed during the US invasion of Iraq and the attempts of high-ranking British military commanders to hide and cover these crimes.
The report of the British independent newspaper published today on its website indicated that the highest legal adviser in the British army in the period following the US invasion of Iraq filed a criminal complaint when he discovered the existence of so-called "black sites" in western Iraq, stressing that the British forces concealed the prisoners from international organizations Including the Red Cross and that one of the prisons that were the subject of the complaint is located within the base of the joint US-British forward operating base known as the area "HA".
The RAF police investigation into the complaint about these black sites has faced a series of hurdles, and the case file later disappeared strangely in an open attempt to bury the facts and cover up the crimes committed by British forces to re-establish a new investigation conducted by the Times in cooperation with the The BBC has recently opened old files and confirms the British government's cover-up of secret documents containing evidence implicating British soldiers in the murders of children and torture of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Times and BBC investigation, completed over the course of a year, cited many examples of war crimes committed by British soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, including the deaths of detainees held by the British Army Special Forces unit, severe beatings, torture and degrading sexual exploitation of detainees by members of Black Watch. In breach of the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners, investigators also uncovered accusations of falsifying serious documents and obstructing the course of justice enough to launch prosecutions of high-ranking officers in the British Army. P in the head by a special forces soldier.
The British Ministry of Defense seems determined to ignore the crimes committed by its forces and the International Criminal Court announced a few days ago that it may open an investigation into reports confirming the British forces committed such crimes committed under the pretext of fighting terrorism, as happened during the last few years in Syria in the framework of the so-called The international coalition “illegally established by the United States from outside the UN Security Council to carry out its ambitions and provide support and protection to its terrorist organizations, led by ISIS.
Bassima Kenoun