No Immunity for the British Soldiers
Al-Mashriq is published daily by Al-Mashriq Institution for Media and Cultural Investments.
No Immunity for the British Soldiers
Al-Mashriq is published daily by Al-Mashriq Institution for Media and Cultural Investments.
The head of the Misan provincial council, Abdul Jabbar Waheed, announced that the council has decided to lift the immunity of British forces so that the soldiers who beat the Iraqi youths can be tried in Iraqi courts. (A videotape showed British soldiers beating Iraqi youths during a January 2004 riot.) He said in a press conference that the immunity the British forces received under the former civil administrator (L. Paul) Bremmer would be lifted so that the soldiers could be investigated and tried under the Iraqi laws. The council urged the British forces to allow the provincial committee to visit al-Shuaiba jail in order to check on the detainees there. He warned that if the British forces do not comply with the council’s demands, it would boycott (British) political, security and reconstruction intiatives.
