{"id":74376,"date":"2021-04-07T15:57:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T15:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=74376"},"modified":"2021-04-08T14:53:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T14:53:41","slug":"british-defense-secretary-admits-his-forces-have-committed-war-crimes-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/74376-british-defense-secretary-admits-his-forces-have-committed-war-crimes-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"British Defense Secretary admits his forces have committed war crimes in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/04\/photo_2021-04-07_22-18-59-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/04\/photo_2021-04-07_22-18-59-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/04\/photo_2021-04-07_22-18-59-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/04\/photo_2021-04-07_22-18-59-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/04\/photo_2021-04-07_22-18-59-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/04\/photo_2021-04-07_22-18-59.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace admitted, on Tuesday, that British soldiers committed war crimes in Iraq, but excluded the crime of Iraqi Saeed Shabram, saying it was not a war crime.<br>The Telegraph stated in a report, that the British Defense Minister clashed with the International Criminal Court because it accused a senior officer in the army of committing the crime for receiving medals, as he put it.<br>He added that, in an unusual move, Wallace wrote to the attorney general of the court asking him to rewrite and correct a published report that he said that an Iraqi young man was drowned in a water canal by British forces in Iraq in 2003 and that he may be a victim of committing a war crime.<br>He continued, &#8220;The letter sent by the British Defense Secretary puts Britain on a collision course with the International Criminal Court, which is funding it, as three soldiers who committed the crime in Iraq were acquitted by a former British Appeals Court judge after a three-year investigation.&#8221;<br>Those accused by the British court, the International Criminal Court announced that it believed his death was a war crime, and he was one of at least seven Iraqis unlawfully killed while they were in the British detention center in Basra.<br>Wallace said, &#8220;While we admit to committing war crimes by British forces in Iraq, we are also clear that this does not include the death of Saeed Shabram.&#8221;<br>For its part, the Public Prosecutor at the Criminal Court said that he found &#8220;a reasonable basis to believe that the crime of premeditated murder took place in a number of incidents, including the crime of Saeed Shabram. 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