War Crimes Court Looks at Allegations Against UK Troops in Iraq

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War Crimes Court Looks at Allegations Against UK Troops in Iraq...

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Published on Monday, July 28, 2003 by Reuters
ICC Looks at Allegations Against UK Troops in Iraq


AMSTERDAM - The prosecutor of the world's first permanent war crimes court will review a dossier containing allegations of human rights abuses by British troops in Iraq, the court said Monday.
Members of the Athens Bar Association have called on International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo to investigate 22 alleged incidents involving British forces in the war, the court said in a statement.

The Greek lawyers handed a dossier containing 74 press reports and 13 video tapes of news reports from the war in Iraq to the prosecutor.
"The Office of the Prosecutor handed a written letter acknowledging receipt of this communication to the members of the Association and will review the content of the communication and the dossier," The Hague-based court said.

"Experts of the Athens Bar Association prepared 22 charges referring to specific incidents and requested the Office of the Prosecutor to exercise the jurisdiction of the Court in crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide," the ICC said.

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