Declar­ation came in the form of 74-page report delive­red to annual assemb­ly of state partie­sInternational Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has claimed that there is a “reasonable basis” to believe that soldiers from the United Kingdom (UK) committed war crimes against detainees during the Iraq war. The chief prosecutor, however, did seek to dismiss allegations that British troops committed any war crimes on the battlefield. A preliminary inquiry by the ICC in 2006 into allegations of a similar nature had had suggested that troops from the UK did commit war crimes in Iraq, “namely willful killing and inhuman treatment of detainees”. The ICC investigation was reopened by Fatou Bensouda in 2014 after she received fresh information into the claims. Bensouda’s report examines the controversy over the claims and refers to the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT).

Source: The Express Tribune December 05, 2017 10:50 UTC