January Tuesday 29 2008 (18h29) :
’Blair Government under police investigation for war crimes.’
Press Conference
Press Release: Scotland Yard to investigate Tony Blair and ex-Attorney
General Peter Goldsmith
for war crimes
Press Conference, Room C, 1 Parliament Street Tuesday 15th January 2008
3pm
Video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4054210826492968250&hl=en-GB
John McDonnell MP, Chris Coverdale: International War Law Expert and Annie
Machon of the
Campaign to Make War History brief MPs and the media on allegations of war
crimes committed
against the people of Iraq by Britain’s former Prime Minister and former
Attorney General.
Officers from Scotland Yard have commenced a criminal investigation into
the deaths of Iraqi
citizens killed during the armed invasion and occupation of Iraq. The
Metropolitan Police are
acting in response to crimes re****ted by peace activists from We Are
Change UK and The Campaign
to Make War History. In an unprecedented step, the case was handed to the
War Crimes division
of the Counter Terrorism branch who are now investigating allegations of
14 criminal offences
committed by Tony Blair, Lord Goldsmith and others. The offences are under
the International
Criminal Court Act 2001, which came into effect under English common law,
just two days before
9/11.
Two Members of We Are Change UK and a representative from the Campaign to
Make War History were
interviewed for six hours at Belgravia Police station on the 20th December
2007. Evidence was
provided to the police relating to the crimes of:-
• genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and conduct ancillary to
these crimes under
Sections 51 and 52 of The International Criminal Court Act 2001. • a crime
against peace and
complicity in a crime against peace under Articles 6 and 7 of The
Nuremburg Principles. •
murder, incitement to murder and conspiracy to murder under the Offences
Against the Person Act
1861. • conspiracy to commit genocide, a crime against humanity and war
crimes under the
Criminal Law Act 1977.
For more information, please contact:
press Gds www.wearechange.org.uk
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