Especially for the lunatic clown Robert Henderson who thinks the EVIL
BLOOD THIRSTY THIEVING ROGUE STATE is an angel.

Everything about the WEST is FAKE, except their "genius fellatio
expertise" regardless of their genders and age.

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Explainer: Is the UK a rogue state? 17 British policies violating
domestic or international law

UK governments routinely claim to uphold national and international law.
But the reality of British policies is quite different, especially when
it comes to foreign policy and so-called ‘national security’. This
explainer summarises 17 long-running government policies which violate
UK domestic or international law.

MARK CURTIS

7 February 2020

British foreign secretary Dominic Raab recently described the “rule of
international law” as one of the “guiding lights” of UK foreign policy.
By contrast, the government regularly chides states it opposes, such as
Russia or Iran, as violators of international law. These governments are
often consequently termed “rogue states” in the mainstream media, the
supposed antithesis of how “we” operate.

The following list of 17 policies may not be exhaustive, but it suggests
that the term “rogue state” is not sensationalist or misplaced when it
comes to describing Britain’s own foreign and “security” policies.

These serial violations suggest that parliamentary and public oversight
over executive policy-making in the UK is not fit for purpose and that
new mechanisms are needed to restrain the excesses of the British state.
The Royal Air Force’s drone war

Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) operates a drone programme in support of
the US involving a fleet of British “Reaper” drones operating since
2007. They have been used by the UK to strike targets in Afghanistan,
Iraq and Syria.

Four RAF bases in the UK support the US drone war. The joint UK and US
spy base at Menwith Hill in Yorkshire, northern England, facilitates US
drone strikes in Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia. US drone strikes,
involving an assassination programme begun by president Barack Obama,
are widely regarded as illegal under international law, breaching
fundamental human rights. Up to 1,700 civilian adults and children have
been killed in so-called “targeted killings”.

Amnesty International notes that British backing is “absolutely crucial
to the US lethal drones programme, providing support for various US
surveillance programmes, vital intelligence exchanges and in some cases
direct involvement from UK personnel in identifying and tracking targets
for US lethal operations, including drone strikes that may have been
unlawful”.

Chagos Islands

Britain has violated international law in the case of the Chagos Islands
in the Indian Ocean since it expelled the inhabitants in the 1960s to
make way for a US military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island.

Harold Wilson’s Labour government separated the islands from then
British colony Mauritius in 1965 in breach of a UN resolution banning
the breakup of colonies before independence. London then formed a new
colonial entity, the British Indian Ocean Territory, which is now an
Overseas Territory.

In 2015, a UN Tribunal ruled that the UK’s proposed “marine protected
area” around the islands — shown by Wikileaks publications to be a ruse
to keep the islanders from returning — was unlawful since it undermined
the rights of Mauritius.

Then in February 2019, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled in
an advisory opinion that Britain must end its administration of the
Chagos islands “as rapidly as possible”. The UN General Assembly adopted
a resolution in May 2019 welcoming the ICJ ruling and “demanding that
the United Kingdom unconditionally withdraw its colonial administration
from the area within six months”. The UK government has rejected the calls.
Defying the UN over the Falklands

The UN’s 24-country Special Committee on Decolonisation — its principal
body addressing issues concerning decolonisation — has repeatedly called
on the UK government to negotiate a resolution to the dispute over the
status of the Falklands. In its latest call, in June 2019, the committee
approved a draft resolution “reiterating that the only way to end the
special and particular colonial situation of the Falkland Islands
(Malvinas) is through a peaceful and negotiated settlement of the
sovereignty dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom”.

The British government consistently rejects these demands. Last year, it
stated:

“The Decolonisation Committee no longer has a relevant role to play with
respect to British Overseas Territories. They all have a large measure
of self government, have chosen to retain their links with the UK, and
therefore should have been delisted a long time ago.”

In 2016, the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf issued
a report finding that the Falkland Islands are located in Argentina’s
territorial waters.
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Israel and settlement goods

Although Britain regularly condemns Israeli settlements in the occupied
territories as illegal, in line with international law, it permits trade
in goods produced on those settlements. It also does not keep a record
of imports that come from the settlements — which include wine, olive
oil and dates — into the UK.

UN Security Council resolutions require all states to “distinguish, in
their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State of Israel
and the territories occupied since 1967”. The UK is failing to do this.
Israel’s blockade of Gaza

Israel’s blockade of Gaza, imposed in 2007 following the territory’s
takeover by Hamas, is widely regarded as illegal. Senior UN officials, a
UN independent panel of experts, and Amnesty International all agree
that the infliction of “collective punishment” on the population of Gaza
contravenes international human rights and humanitarian law.

Gaza has about 1.8 million inhabitants who remain “locked in” and denied
free access to the remainder of putative Palestine (the West Bank) and
the outside world. It has poverty and unemployment rates that reached
nearly 75% in 2019.

Through its naval blockade, the Israeli navy restricts Palestinians’
fishing rights, fires on local fishermen and has intercepted ships
delivering humanitarian aid. Britain, and all states, have an obligation
“to ensure compliance by Israel with international humanitarian law” in
Gaza.

However, instead of doing so, the UK regularly collaborates with the
navy enforcing the blockade. In August 2019, Britain’s Royal Navy took
part in the largest international naval exercise ever held by Israel,
off the country’s Mediterranean shore. In November 2016 and December
2017, British warships conducted military exercises with their Israeli
allies.
Exports of surveillance equipment

Declassified revealed that the UK recently exported telecommunications
interception equipment or software to 13 countries, including
authoritarian regimes in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia
and Oman. Such technology can enable security forces to monitor the
private activities of groups or individuals and crack down on political
opponents.

The UAE has been involved in programmes monitoring domestic activists
using spyware. In 2017 and 2018, British exporters were given four
licences to export telecommunications interception equipment, components
or software to the UAE.

UK arms export guidelines state that the government will “not grant a
licence if there is a clear risk that the items might be used for
internal repression”. Reports by Amnesty International document human
rights abuses in the cases of UAE, Saudi Arabia and Oman, suggesting
that British approval of such exports to these countries is prima facie
unlawful.
Arms exports to Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia has been accused by the UN and others of violating
international humanitarian law and committing war crimes in its war in
Yemen, which began in March 2015. The UK has licensed nearly £5-billion
worth of arms to the Saudi regime during this time. In addition, the RAF
is helping to maintain Saudi warplanes at key operating bases and stores
and issues bombs for use in Yemen.

Following legal action brought by the Campaign Against the Arms Trade,
the UK Court of Appeal ruled in June 2019 that ministers had illegally
signed off on arms exports without properly assessing the risk to
civilians. The court ruled that the government must reconsider the
export licences in accordance with the correct legal approach.

The ruling followed a report by a cross-party House of Lords committee,
published earlier in 2019, which concluded that Britain is breaking
international law by selling weapons to Saudi Arabia and should suspend
some export licences immediately.
RELATED

Julian Assange’s arbitrary detention and torture

In the case of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange — currently held in
Belmarsh maximum-security prison in London — the UK is defying repeated
opinions of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) and the
UN special rapporteur on torture.

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> Especially for the lunatic clown Robert Henderson who thinks the EVIL
> BLOOD THIRSTY THIEVING ROGUE STATE is an angel.
>
> Everything about the WEST is FAKE, except their "genius fellatio
> expertise" regardless of their genders and age.
>
> ===========================================================================
>
>
> https://declassifieduk.org/explainer-is-the-uk-a-rogue-state-17-british-policies-violating-domestic-or-international-law/
>
> Explainer: Is the UK a rogue state? 17 British policies violating
> domestic or international law
>
> UK governments routinely claim to uphold national and international law.
> But the reality of British policies is quite different, especially when
> it comes to foreign policy and so-called ‘national security’. This
> explainer summarises 17 long-running government policies which violate
> UK domestic or international law.
>
> MARK CURTIS
>
> 7 February 2020
>
> British foreign secretary Dominic Raab recently described the “rule of
> international law” as one of the “guiding lights” of UK foreign policy.
> By contrast, the government regularly chides states it opposes, such as
> Russia or Iran, as violators of international law. These governments are
> often consequently termed “rogue states” in the mainstream media, the
> supposed antithesis of how “we” operate.
>
> The following list of 17 policies may not be exhaustive, but it suggests
> that the term “rogue state” is not sensationalist or misplaced when it
> comes to describing Britain’s own foreign and “security” policies.
>
> These serial violations suggest that parliamentary and public oversight
> over executive policy-making in the UK is not fit for purpose and that
> new mechanisms are needed to restrain the excesses of the British state.
> The Royal Air Force’s drone war
>
> Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) operates a drone programme in support of
> the US involving a fleet of British “Reaper” drones operating since
> 2007. They have been used by the UK to strike targets in Afghanistan,
> Iraq and Syria.
>
> Four RAF bases in the UK support the US drone war. The joint UK and US
> spy base at Menwith Hill in Yorkshire, northern England, facilitates US
> drone strikes in Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia. US drone strikes,
> involving an assassination programme begun by president Barack Obama,
> are widely regarded as illegal under international law, breaching
> fundamental human rights. Up to 1,700 civilian adults and children have
> been killed in so-called “targeted killings”.
>
> Amnesty International notes that British backing is “absolutely crucial
> to the US lethal drones programme, providing support for various US
> surveillance programmes, vital intelligence exchanges and in some cases
> direct involvement from UK personnel in identifying and tracking targets
> for US lethal operations, including drone strikes that may have been
> unlawful”.
>
> Chagos Islands
>
> Britain has violated international law in the case of the Chagos Islands
> in the Indian Ocean since it expelled the inhabitants in the 1960s to
> make way for a US military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island.
>
> Harold Wilson’s Labour government separated the islands from then
> British colony Mauritius in 1965 in breach of a UN resolution banning
> the breakup of colonies before independence. London then formed a new
> colonial entity, the British Indian Ocean Territory, which is now an
> Overseas Territory.
>
> In 2015, a UN Tribunal ruled that the UK’s proposed “marine protected
> area” around the islands — shown by Wikileaks publications to be a ruse
> to keep the islanders from returning — was unlawful since it undermined
> the rights of Mauritius.
>
> Then in February 2019, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled in
> an advisory opinion that Britain must end its administration of the
> Chagos islands “as rapidly as possible”. The UN General Assembly adopted
> a resolution in May 2019 welcoming the ICJ ruling and “demanding that
> the United Kingdom unconditionally withdraw its colonial administration
> from the area within six months”. The UK government has rejected the calls.
> Defying the UN over the Falklands
>
> The UN’s 24-country Special Committee on Decolonisation — its principal
> body addressing issues concerning decolonisation — has repeatedly called
> on the UK government to negotiate a resolution to the dispute over the
> status of the Falklands. In its latest call, in June 2019, the committee
> approved a draft resolution “reiterating that the only way to end the
> special and particular colonial situation of the Falkland Islands
> (Malvinas) is through a peaceful and negotiated settlement of the
> sovereignty dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom”.
>
> The British government consistently rejects these demands. Last year, it
> stated:
>
> “The Decolonisation Committee no longer has a relevant role to play with
> respect to British Overseas Territories. They all have a large measure
> of self government, have chosen to retain their links with the UK, and
> therefore should have been delisted a long time ago.”
>
> In 2016, the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf issued
> a report finding that the Falkland Islands are located in Argentina’s
> territorial waters.
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> Israel and settlement goods
>
> Although Britain regularly condemns Israeli settlements in the occupied
> territories as illegal, in line with international law, it permits trade
> in goods produced on those settlements. It also does not keep a record
> of imports that come from the settlements — which include wine, olive
> oil and dates — into the UK.
>
> UN Security Council resolutions require all states to “distinguish, in
> their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State of Israel
> and the territories occupied since 1967”. The UK is failing to do this.
> Israel’s blockade of Gaza
>
> Israel’s blockade of Gaza, imposed in 2007 following the territory’s
> takeover by Hamas, is widely regarded as illegal. Senior UN officials, a
> UN independent panel of experts, and Amnesty International all agree
> that the infliction of “collective punishment” on the population of Gaza
> contravenes international human rights and humanitarian law.
>
> Gaza has about 1.8 million inhabitants who remain “locked in” and denied
> free access to the remainder of putative Palestine (the West Bank) and
> the outside world. It has poverty and unemployment rates that reached
> nearly 75% in 2019.
>
> Through its naval blockade, the Israeli navy restricts Palestinians’
> fishing rights, fires on local fishermen and has intercepted ships
> delivering humanitarian aid. Britain, and all states, have an obligation
> “to ensure compliance by Israel with international humanitarian law” in
> Gaza.
>
> However, instead of doing so, the UK regularly collaborates with the
> navy enforcing the blockade. In August 2019, Britain’s Royal Navy took
> part in the largest international naval exercise ever held by Israel,
> off the country’s Mediterranean shore. In November 2016 and December
> 2017, British warships conducted military exercises with their Israeli
> allies.
> Exports of surveillance equipment
>
> Declassified revealed that the UK recently exported telecommunications
> interception equipment or software to 13 countries, including
> authoritarian regimes in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia
> and Oman. Such technology can enable security forces to monitor the
> private activities of groups or individuals and crack down on political
> opponents.
>
> The UAE has been involved in programmes monitoring domestic activists
> using spyware. In 2017 and 2018, British exporters were given four
> licences to export telecommunications interception equipment, components
> or software to the UAE.
>
> UK arms export guidelines state that the government will “not grant a
> licence if there is a clear risk that the items might be used for
> internal repression”. Reports by Amnesty International document human
> rights abuses in the cases of UAE, Saudi Arabia and Oman, suggesting
> that British approval of such exports to these countries is prima facie
> unlawful.
> Arms exports to Saudi Arabia
>
> Saudi Arabia has been accused by the UN and others of violating
> international humanitarian law and committing war crimes in its war in
> Yemen, which began in March 2015. The UK has licensed nearly £5-billion
> worth of arms to the Saudi regime during this time. In addition, the RAF
> is helping to maintain Saudi warplanes at key operating bases and stores
> and issues bombs for use in Yemen.
>
> Following legal action brought by the Campaign Against the Arms Trade,
> the UK Court of Appeal ruled in June 2019 that ministers had illegally
> signed off on arms exports without properly assessing the risk to
> civilians. The court ruled that the government must reconsider the
> export licences in accordance with the correct legal approach.
>
> The ruling followed a report by a cross-party House of Lords committee,
> published earlier in 2019, which concluded that Britain is breaking
> international law by selling weapons to Saudi Arabia and should suspend
> some export licences immediately.
> RELATED
>
> Julian Assange’s arbitrary detention and torture
>
> In the case of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange — currently held in
> Belmarsh maximum-security prison in London — the UK is defying repeated
> opinions of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) and the
> UN special rapporteur on torture.
>
> The latter, Nils Melzer, has called on the UK government to release
> Assange on the grounds that officials are contributing to his
> psychological torture and ill treatment. Melzer has also called for UK
> officials to be investigated for possible “criminal conduct” as
> government policy “severely undermines the credibility of [its]
> commitment to the prohibition of torture… as well as to the rule of law
> more generally”.
>
> The WGAD — the supreme international body scrutinising this issue — has
> repeatedly demanded that the UK government end Assange’s “arbitrary
> detention”. Although the UN states that WGAD determinations are legally
> binding, its calls have been consistently rejected by the UK government.
> Covert wars
>
> Covert military operations to subvert foreign governments, such as
> Britain’s years-long operation in Syria to overthrow the Assad regime,
> are unlawful. As a House of Commons briefing notes, “forcible assistance
> to opposition forces is illegal”.
>
> A precedent was set in the Nicaragua case in the 1980s, when US-backed
> covert forces (the “Contras”) sought to overthrow the Sandinista
> government. The International Court of Justice held that a third state
> may not forcibly help the opposition to overthrow a government since it
> breached the principles of non-intervention and prohibition on the use
> of force.
>
> As Declassified has shown, the UK is currently engaged in seven covert
> wars, including in Syria, with minimal parliamentary oversight.
> Government policy is “not to comment” on the activities of its special
> forces “because of the security implications”. The public’s ability to
> scrutinise policy is also restricted since the UK’s Freedom of
> Information Act applies an “absolute exemption” to special forces. This
> is not the case for allied powers such as the US and Canada.
> Torture and the refusal to hold an inquiry
>
> In 2018 a report by parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee
> found that the UK had been complicit in cases of torture and other ill
> treatment of detainees in the so-called “war on terror”. The inquiry
> examined the participation of MI6 (the secret intelligence service), MI5
> (the domestic security service) and Ministry of Defence (MOD) personnel
> in interrogating detainees held primarily by the US in Afghanistan, Iraq
> and Guantanamo Bay during 2001-10.
>
> The report found that there were 232 cases where UK personnel supplied
> questions or intelligence to foreign intelligence agents after they knew
> or suspected that a detainee was being mistreated. It also found 198
> cases where UK personnel received intelligence from foreign agents
> obtained from detainees whom they knew or suspected to have been mistreated.
>
> In one case, MI6 “sought and obtained authorisation from the foreign
> secretary” (then Jack Straw, in Tony Blair’s government) for the costs
> of funding a plane which was involved in rendering a suspect.
>
> After the report was published, the government announced it was refusing
> to hold a judge-led, independent inquiry into the UK’s role in rendition
> and torture as it had previously promised to do. In 2019, human rights
> group Reprieve, together with Conservative and Labour MPs, instigated a
> legal challenge to the government over this refusal–which the High Court
> has agreed to hear.
>
> The UN special rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer, has formally warned
> the UK that its refusal to launch a judicial inquiry into torture and
> rendition breaches international law, specifically the UN Convention
> Against Torture. He has written a private “intervention” letter to the
> UK foreign secretary stating that the government has “a legal obligation
> to investigate and to prosecute”.
>
> Melzer accuses the government of engaging in a “conscious policy” of
> co-operating with torture since 9/11, saying it is “impossible” the
> practice was not approved or at least tolerated by top officials.
> UK’s secret torture policy
>
> The MOD was revealed in 2019 to be operating a secret policy allowing
> ministers to approve actions which could lead to the torture of
> detainees. The policy, contained in an internal MOD document dated
> November 2018, allows ministers to approve passing information to allies
> even if there is a risk of torture, if “the potential benefits justify
> accepting the risk and legal consequences”.
>
> This policy also provides for ministers to approve lists of individuals
> about whom information may be shared despite a serious risk they could
> face mistreatment. One leading lawyer has said that domestic and
> international legislation on the prohibition of torture is clear and
> that the MOD policy supports breaking of the law by ministers.
> Amnesty for crimes committed by soldiers
>
> There is a long history of British soldiers committing crimes during
> wars. In 2019 the government outlined plans to grant immunity for
> offences by soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan and Northern Ireland that were
> committed more than 10 years before.
>
> These plans have been condemned by the UN Committee Against Torture,
> which has called on the government to “refrain from enacting legislation
> that would grant amnesty or pardon where torture is concerned. It should
> also ensure that all victims of such torture and ill-treatment obtain
> redress”.
>
> The committee has specifically urged the UK to “establish responsibility
> and ensure accountability for any torture and ill-treatment committed by
> UK personnel in Iraq from 2003 to 2009, specifically by establishing a
> single, independent, public inquiry to investigate allegations of such
> conduct.”
>
> The government’s proposals are also likely to breach UK obligations
> under the European Convention on Human Rights, which obliges states to
> investigate breaches of the right to life or the prohibition on torture.
>
> GCHQ’s mass surveillance
>
> Files revealed by US whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013 show that the
> UK intelligence agency GCHQ had been secretly intercepting, processing
> and storing data concerning millions of people’s private communications,
> including people of no intelligence interest — in a programme named
> Tempora. Snowden also revealed that the British government was accessing
> personal communications and data collected by the US National Security
> Agency and other countries’ intelligence agencies.
>
> All of this was taking place without public consent or awareness, with
> no basis in law and with no proper safeguards. Since these revelations,
> there has been a long-running legal battle over the UK’s unlawful use of
> these previously secret surveillance powers.
>
> In September 2018, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that UK laws
> enabling mass surveillance were unlawful, violating rights to privacy
> and freedom of expression. The court observed that the UK’s regime for
> authorising bulk interception was incapable of keeping “interference” to
> what is “necessary in a democratic society”.
>
> The UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the body which considers
> complaints against the security services, also found that UK
> intelligence agencies had unlawfully spied on the communications of
> Amnesty International and the Legal Resources Centre in South Africa.
>
> In 2014, revelations also confirmed that GCHQ had been granted authority
> to secretly eavesdrop on legally privileged lawyer-client
> communications, and that MI5 and MI6 adopted similar policies. The
> guidelines appeared to permit surveillance of journalists and others
> deemed to work in “sensitive professions” handling confidential information.
> MI5 personal data
>
> In 2019, MI5 was found to have for years unlawfully retained innocent
> British people’s online location data, calls, messages and web browsing
> history without proper protections, according to the Investigatory
> Powers Commissioner’s Office which upholds British privacy protections.
> MI5 had also failed to give senior judges accurate information about
> repeated breaches of its duty to delete bulk surveillance data, and was
> criticised for mishandling sensitive legally privileged material.
>
> The commissioner concluded that the way MI5 was holding and handling
> people’s data was “undoubtedly unlawful”. Warrants for MI5’s bulk
> surveillance were issued by senior judges on the understanding that the
> agency’s legal data handling obligations were being met — when they were
> not.
>
> “MI5 have been holding on to people’s data—ordinary people’s data, your
> data, my data — illegally for many years,” said Megan Goulding, a lawyer
> for rights organisation Liberty, which brought the case. “Not only that,
> they’ve been trying to keep their really serious errors secret — secret
> from the security services watchdog, who’s supposed to know about them,
> secret from the Home Office, secret from the prime minister and secret
> from the public.”
> Intelligence agencies committing criminal offences
>
> MI5 has been operating under a secret policy that allows its agents to
> commit serious crimes during counter-terrorism operations in the UK,
> according to lawyers for human rights organisations brin
>
> ging a case to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.
>
> The policy, referred to as the “third direction”, allows MI5 officers to
> permit the people they have recruited as agents to commit crimes in
> order to secure access to information that could be used to prevent
> other offences being committed. The crimes potentially include murder,
> kidnap and torture and have operated for decades. MI5 officers are,
> meanwhile, immune from prosecution.
>
> A lawyer for the human rights organisations argues that the issues
> raised by the case are “not hypothetical”, submitting that “in the past,
> authorisation of agent participation in criminality appears to have led
> to grave breaches of fundamental rights”. He points to the 1989 murder
> of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane, an attack carried out by loyalist
> paramilitaries, including some agents working for the British state.
> The ‘James Bond clause’
>
> British intelligence officers can be authorised to commit crimes outside
> the UK. Section 7 of the 1994 Intelligence Services Act vacates UK
> criminal and civil law as long as a senior government minister has
> signed a written authorisation that committing a criminal act overseas
> is permissible. This is sometimes known as the “James Bond clause”.
>
> British spies were reportedly given authority to break the law overseas
> on 13 occasions in 2014 under this clause. GCHQ was given five
> authorisations “removing liability for activities including those
> associated with certain types of intelligence gathering and interference
> with computers, mobile phones and other types of electronic equipment”.
> MI6, meanwhile, was given eight such authorisations in 2014.
> Two cadets from the UK military raise funds for the Royal British Legion
> on New Market Street, Chorley, UK, 2015. (Photo: Flickr)
> Underage soldiers
>
> Britain is the only country in Europe and Nato to allow direct
> enlistment into the army at the age of 16. One in four UK army recruits
> is now under the age of 18. According to the editors of the British
> Medical Journal, “there is no justification for this state policy, which
> is harmful to teen health and should be stopped”. Child recruits are
> more likely than adult recruits to end up in frontline combat, they add.
>
> It was revealed in 2019 that the UK continued to send child soldiers to
> fight in Iraq and Afghanistan despite pledging to end the practice. The
> UK says it does not send under-18s to warzones, as required by the UN
> Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict,
> known as the “child soldiers treaty”.
>
> The UK, however, deployed five 17-year-olds to Iraq or Afghanistan
> between 2007 and 2010: it claims to have done so mistakenly. Previous to
> this, a minister admitted that teenagers had also erroneously been sent
> into battle between 2003 and 2005, insisting it would not happen again.
>
> The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child expressed concern at the
> UK’s recruitment policy in 2008 and 2016, and recommended that the
> government “raise the minimum age for recruitment into the armed forces
> to 18 years in order to promote the protection of children through an
> overall higher legal standard”. Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human
> Rights, the children’s commissioners for the four jurisdictions of the
> UK, along with children’s rights organisations, all support this call.

On 1/17/2023 4:52 AM, Robert Henderson wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 17, 2023 at 5:58:34 AM UTC, FBInCIAnNSATerroristSlayer wrote:
>> Especially for the lunatic clown Robert Henderson who thinks the EVIL
>> BLOOD THIRSTY THIEVING ROGUE STATE is an angel.
>>
>> Everything about the WEST is FAKE, except their "genius fellatio
>> expertise" regardless of their genders and age.
>>
>> ===========================================================================
>>
>>
>> https://declassifieduk.org/explainer-is-the-uk-a-rogue-state-17-british-policies-violating-domestic-or-international-law/
>>
>> Explainer: Is the UK a rogue state? 17 British policies violating
>> domestic or international law
>>
>> UK governments routinely claim to uphold national and international law.
>> But the reality of British policies is quite different, especially when
>> it comes to foreign policy and so-called ‘national security’. This
>> explainer summarises 17 long-running government policies which violate
>> UK domestic or international law.
>>
>> MARK CURTIS
>>
>> 7 February 2020
>>
>> British foreign secretary Dominic Raab recently described the “rule of
>> international law” as one of the “guiding lights” of UK foreign policy.
>> By contrast, the government regularly chides states it opposes, such as
>> Russia or Iran, as violators of international law. These governments are
>> often consequently termed “rogue states” in the mainstream media, the
>> supposed antithesis of how “we” operate.
>>
>> The following list of 17 policies may not be exhaustive, but it suggests
>> that the term “rogue state” is not sensationalist or misplaced when it
>> comes to describing Britain’s own foreign and “security” policies.
>>
>> These serial violations suggest that parliamentary and public oversight
>> over executive policy-making in the UK is not fit for purpose and that
>> new mechanisms are needed to restrain the excesses of the British state.
>> The Royal Air Force’s drone war
>>
>> Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) operates a drone programme in support of
>> the US involving a fleet of British “Reaper” drones operating since
>> 2007. They have been used by the UK to strike targets in Afghanistan,
>> Iraq and Syria.
>>
>> Four RAF bases in the UK support the US drone war. The joint UK and US
>> spy base at Menwith Hill in Yorkshire, northern England, facilitates US
>> drone strikes in Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia. US drone strikes,
>> involving an assassination programme begun by president Barack Obama,
>> are widely regarded as illegal under international law, breaching
>> fundamental human rights. Up to 1,700 civilian adults and children have
>> been killed in so-called “targeted killings”.
>>
>> Amnesty International notes that British backing is “absolutely crucial
>> to the US lethal drones programme, providing support for various US
>> surveillance programmes, vital intelligence exchanges and in some cases
>> direct involvement from UK personnel in identifying and tracking targets
>> for US lethal operations, including drone strikes that may have been
>> unlawful”.
>>
>> Chagos Islands
>>
>> Britain has violated international law in the case of the Chagos Islands
>> in the Indian Ocean since it expelled the inhabitants in the 1960s to
>> make way for a US military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island.
>>
>> Harold Wilson’s Labour government separated the islands from then
>> British colony Mauritius in 1965 in breach of a UN resolution banning
>> the breakup of colonies before independence. London then formed a new
>> colonial entity, the British Indian Ocean Territory, which is now an
>> Overseas Territory.
>>
>> In 2015, a UN Tribunal ruled that the UK’s proposed “marine protected
>> area” around the islands — shown by Wikileaks publications to be a ruse
>> to keep the islanders from returning — was unlawful since it undermined
>> the rights of Mauritius.
>>
>> Then in February 2019, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled in
>> an advisory opinion that Britain must end its administration of the
>> Chagos islands “as rapidly as possible”. The UN General Assembly adopted
>> a resolution in May 2019 welcoming the ICJ ruling and “demanding that
>> the United Kingdom unconditionally withdraw its colonial administration
>> from the area within six months”. The UK government has rejected the calls.
>> Defying the UN over the Falklands
>>
>> The UN’s 24-country Special Committee on Decolonisation — its principal
>> body addressing issues concerning decolonisation — has repeatedly called
>> on the UK government to negotiate a resolution to the dispute over the
>> status of the Falklands. In its latest call, in June 2019, the committee
>> approved a draft resolution “reiterating that the only way to end the
>> special and particular colonial situation of the Falkland Islands
>> (Malvinas) is through a peaceful and negotiated settlement of the
>> sovereignty dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom”.
>>
>> The British government consistently rejects these demands. Last year, it
>> stated:
>>
>> “The Decolonisation Committee no longer has a relevant role to play with
>> respect to British Overseas Territories. They all have a large measure
>> of self government, have chosen to retain their links with the UK, and
>> therefore should have been delisted a long time ago.”
>>
>> In 2016, the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf issued
>> a report finding that the Falkland Islands are located in Argentina’s
>> territorial waters.
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>> Israel and settlement goods
>>
>> Although Britain regularly condemns Israeli settlements in the occupied
>> territories as illegal, in line with international law, it permits trade
>> in goods produced on those settlements. It also does not keep a record
>> of imports that come from the settlements — which include wine, olive
>> oil and dates — into the UK.
>>
>> UN Security Council resolutions require all states to “distinguish, in
>> their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State of Israel
>> and the territories occupied since 1967”. The UK is failing to do this.
>> Israel’s blockade of Gaza
>>
>> Israel’s blockade of Gaza, imposed in 2007 following the territory’s
>> takeover by Hamas, is widely regarded as illegal. Senior UN officials, a
>> UN independent panel of experts, and Amnesty International all agree
>> that the infliction of “collective punishment” on the population of Gaza
>> contravenes international human rights and humanitarian law.
>>
>> Gaza has about 1.8 million inhabitants who remain “locked in” and denied
>> free access to the remainder of putative Palestine (the West Bank) and
>> the outside world. It has poverty and unemployment rates that reached
>> nearly 75% in 2019.
>>
>> Through its naval blockade, the Israeli navy restricts Palestinians’
>> fishing rights, fires on local fishermen and has intercepted ships
>> delivering humanitarian aid. Britain, and all states, have an obligation
>> “to ensure compliance by Israel with international humanitarian law” in
>> Gaza.
>>
>> However, instead of doing so, the UK regularly collaborates with the
>> navy enforcing the blockade. In August 2019, Britain’s Royal Navy took
>> part in the largest international naval exercise ever held by Israel,
>> off the country’s Mediterranean shore. In November 2016 and December
>> 2017, British warships conducted military exercises with their Israeli
>> allies.
>> Exports of surveillance equipment
>>
>> Declassified revealed that the UK recently exported telecommunications
>> interception equipment or software to 13 countries, including
>> authoritarian regimes in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia
>> and Oman. Such technology can enable security forces to monitor the
>> private activities of groups or individuals and crack down on political
>> opponents.
>>
>> The UAE has been involved in programmes monitoring domestic activists
>> using spyware. In 2017 and 2018, British exporters were given four
>> licences to export telecommunications interception equipment, components
>> or software to the UAE.
>>
>> UK arms export guidelines state that the government will “not grant a
>> licence if there is a clear risk that the items might be used for
>> internal repression”. Reports by Amnesty International document human
>> rights abuses in the cases of UAE, Saudi Arabia and Oman, suggesting
>> that British approval of such exports to these countries is prima facie
>> unlawful.
>> Arms exports to Saudi Arabia
>>
>> Saudi Arabia has been accused by the UN and others of violating
>> international humanitarian law and committing war crimes in its war in
>> Yemen, which began in March 2015. The UK has licensed nearly £5-billion
>> worth of arms to the Saudi regime during this time. In addition, the RAF
>> is helping to maintain Saudi warplanes at key operating bases and stores
>> and issues bombs for use in Yemen.
>>
>> Following legal action brought by the Campaign Against the Arms Trade,
>> the UK Court of Appeal ruled in June 2019 that ministers had illegally
>> signed off on arms exports without properly assessing the risk to
>> civilians. The court ruled that the government must reconsider the
>> export licences in accordance with the correct legal approach.
>>
>> The ruling followed a report by a cross-party House of Lords committee,
>> published earlier in 2019, which concluded that Britain is breaking
>> international law by selling weapons to Saudi Arabia and should suspend
>> some export licences immediately.
>> RELATED
>>
>> Julian Assange’s arbitrary detention and torture
>>
>> In the case of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange — currently held in
>> Belmarsh maximum-security prison in London — the UK is defying repeated
>> opinions of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) and the
>> UN special rapporteur on torture.
>>
>> The latter, Nils Melzer, has called on the UK government to release
>> Assange on the grounds that officials are contributing to his
>> psychological torture and ill treatment. Melzer has also called for UK
>> officials to be investigated for possible “criminal conduct” as
>> government policy “severely undermines the credibility of [its]
>> commitment to the prohibition of torture… as well as to the rule of law
>> more generally”.
>>
>> The WGAD — the supreme international body scrutinising this issue — has
>> repeatedly demanded that the UK government end Assange’s “arbitrary
>> detention”. Although the UN states that WGAD determinations are legally
>> binding, its calls have been consistently rejected by the UK government.
>> Covert wars
>>
>> Covert military operations to subvert foreign governments, such as
>> Britain’s years-long operation in Syria to overthrow the Assad regime,
>> are unlawful. As a House of Commons briefing notes, “forcible assistance
>> to opposition forces is illegal”.
>>
>> A precedent was set in the Nicaragua case in the 1980s, when US-backed
>> covert forces (the “Contras”) sought to overthrow the Sandinista
>> government. The International Court of Justice held that a third state
>> may not forcibly help the opposition to overthrow a government since it
>> breached the principles of non-intervention and prohibition on the use
>> of force.
>>
>> As Declassified has shown, the UK is currently engaged in seven covert
>> wars, including in Syria, with minimal parliamentary oversight.
>> Government policy is “not to comment” on the activities of its special
>> forces “because of the security implications”. The public’s ability to
>> scrutinise policy is also restricted since the UK’s Freedom of
>> Information Act applies an “absolute exemption” to special forces. This
>> is not the case for allied powers such as the US and Canada.
>> Torture and the refusal to hold an inquiry
>>
>> In 2018 a report by parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee
>> found that the UK had been complicit in cases of torture and other ill
>> treatment of detainees in the so-called “war on terror”. The inquiry
>> examined the participation of MI6 (the secret intelligence service), MI5
>> (the domestic security service) and Ministry of Defence (MOD) personnel
>> in interrogating detainees held primarily by the US in Afghanistan, Iraq
>> and Guantanamo Bay during 2001-10.
>>
>> The report found that there were 232 cases where UK personnel supplied
>> questions or intelligence to foreign intelligence agents after they knew
>> or suspected that a detainee was being mistreated. It also found 198
>> cases where UK personnel received intelligence from foreign agents
>> obtained from detainees whom they knew or suspected to have been mistreated.
>>
>> In one case, MI6 “sought and obtained authorisation from the foreign
>> secretary” (then Jack Straw, in Tony Blair’s government) for the costs
>> of funding a plane which was involved in rendering a suspect.
>>
>> After the report was published, the government announced it was refusing
>> to hold a judge-led, independent inquiry into the UK’s role in rendition
>> and torture as it had previously promised to do. In 2019, human rights
>> group Reprieve, together with Conservative and Labour MPs, instigated a
>> legal challenge to the government over this refusal–which the High Court
>> has agreed to hear.
>>
>> The UN special rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer, has formally warned
>> the UK that its refusal to launch a judicial inquiry into torture and
>> rendition breaches international law, specifically the UN Convention
>> Against Torture. He has written a private “intervention” letter to the
>> UK foreign secretary stating that the government has “a legal obligation
>> to investigate and to prosecute”.
>>
>> Melzer accuses the government of engaging in a “conscious policy” of
>> co-operating with torture since 9/11, saying it is “impossible” the
>> practice was not approved or at least tolerated by top officials.
>> UK’s secret torture policy
>>
>> The MOD was revealed in 2019 to be operating a secret policy allowing
>> ministers to approve actions which could lead to the torture of
>> detainees. The policy, contained in an internal MOD document dated
>> November 2018, allows ministers to approve passing information to allies
>> even if there is a risk of torture, if “the potential benefits justify
>> accepting the risk and legal consequences”.
>>
>> This policy also provides for ministers to approve lists of individuals
>> about whom information may be shared despite a serious risk they could
>> face mistreatment. One leading lawyer has said that domestic and
>> international legislation on the prohibition of torture is clear and
>> that the MOD policy supports breaking of the law by ministers.
>> Amnesty for crimes committed by soldiers
>>
>> There is a long history of British soldiers committing crimes during
>> wars. In 2019 the government outlined plans to grant immunity for
>> offences by soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan and Northern Ireland that were
>> committed more than 10 years before.
>>
>> These plans have been condemned by the UN Committee Against Torture,
>> which has called on the government to “refrain from enacting legislation
>> that would grant amnesty or pardon where torture is concerned. It should
>> also ensure that all victims of such torture and ill-treatment obtain
>> redress”.
>>
>> The committee has specifically urged the UK to “establish responsibility
>> and ensure accountability for any torture and ill-treatment committed by
>> UK personnel in Iraq from 2003 to 2009, specifically by establishing a
>> single, independent, public inquiry to investigate allegations of such
>> conduct.”
>>
>> The government’s proposals are also likely to breach UK obligations
>> under the European Convention on Human Rights, which obliges states to
>> investigate breaches of the right to life or the prohibition on torture.
>>
>> GCHQ’s mass surveillance
>>
>> Files revealed by US whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013 show that the
>> UK intelligence agency GCHQ had been secretly intercepting, processing
>> and storing data concerning millions of people’s private communications,
>> including people of no intelligence interest — in a programme named
>> Tempora. Snowden also revealed that the British government was accessing
>> personal communications and data collected by the US National Security
>> Agency and other countries’ intelligence agencies.
>>
>> All of this was taking place without public consent or awareness, with
>> no basis in law and with no proper safeguards. Since these revelations,
>> there has been a long-running legal battle over the UK’s unlawful use of
>> these previously secret surveillance powers.
>>
>> In September 2018, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that UK laws
>> enabling mass surveillance were unlawful, violating rights to privacy
>> and freedom of expression. The court observed that the UK’s regime for
>> authorising bulk interception was incapable of keeping “interference” to
>> what is “necessary in a democratic society”.
>>
>> The UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the body which considers
>> complaints against the security services, also found that UK
>> intelligence agencies had unlawfully spied on the communications of
>> Amnesty International and the Legal Resources Centre in South Africa.
>>
>> In 2014, revelations also confirmed that GCHQ had been granted authority
>> to secretly eavesdrop on legally privileged lawyer-client
>> communications, and that MI5 and MI6 adopted similar policies. The
>> guidelines appeared to permit surveillance of journalists and others
>> deemed to work in “sensitive professions” handling confidential information.
>> MI5 personal data
>>
>> In 2019, MI5 was found to have for years unlawfully retained innocent
>> British people’s online location data, calls, messages and web browsing
>> history without proper protections, according to the Investigatory
>> Powers Commissioner’s Office which upholds British privacy protections.
>> MI5 had also failed to give senior judges accurate information about
>> repeated breaches of its duty to delete bulk surveillance data, and was
>> criticised for mishandling sensitive legally privileged material.
>>
>> The commissioner concluded that the way MI5 was holding and handling
>> people’s data was “undoubtedly unlawful”. Warrants for MI5’s bulk
>> surveillance were issued by senior judges on the understanding that the
>> agency’s legal data handling obligations were being met — when they were
>> not.
>>
>> “MI5 have been holding on to people’s data—ordinary people’s data, your
>> data, my data — illegally for many years,” said Megan Goulding, a lawyer
>> for rights organisation Liberty, which brought the case. “Not only that,
>> they’ve been trying to keep their really serious errors secret — secret
>> from the security services watchdog, who’s supposed to know about them,
>> secret from the Home Office, secret from the prime minister and secret
>> from the public.”
>> Intelligence agencies committing criminal offences
>>
>> MI5 has been operating under a secret policy that allows its agents to
>> commit serious crimes during counter-terrorism operations in the UK,
>> according to lawyers for human rights organisations brin
>>
>> ging a case to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.
>>
>> The policy, referred to as the “third direction”, allows MI5 officers to
>> permit the people they have recruited as agents to commit crimes in
>> order to secure access to information that could be used to prevent
>> other offences being committed. The crimes potentially include murder,
>> kidnap and torture and have operated for decades. MI5 officers are,
>> meanwhile, immune from prosecution.
>>
>> A lawyer for the human rights organisations argues that the issues
>> raised by the case are “not hypothetical”, submitting that “in the past,
>> authorisation of agent participation in criminality appears to have led
>> to grave breaches of fundamental rights”. He points to the 1989 murder
>> of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane, an attack carried out by loyalist
>> paramilitaries, including some agents working for the British state.
>> The ‘James Bond clause’
>>
>> British intelligence officers can be authorised to commit crimes outside
>> the UK. Section 7 of the 1994 Intelligence Services Act vacates UK
>> criminal and civil law as long as a senior government minister has
>> signed a written authorisation that committing a criminal act overseas
>> is permissible. This is sometimes known as the “James Bond clause”.
>>
>> British spies were reportedly given authority to break the law overseas
>> on 13 occasions in 2014 under this clause. GCHQ was given five
>> authorisations “removing liability for activities including those
>> associated with certain types of intelligence gathering and interference
>> with computers, mobile phones and other types of electronic equipment”.
>> MI6, meanwhile, was given eight such authorisations in 2014.
>> Two cadets from the UK military raise funds for the Royal British Legion
>> on New Market Street, Chorley, UK, 2015. (Photo: Flickr)
>> Underage soldiers
>>
>> Britain is the only country in Europe and Nato to allow direct
>> enlistment into the army at the age of 16. One in four UK army recruits
>> is now under the age of 18. According to the editors of the British
>> Medical Journal, “there is no justification for this state policy, which
>> is harmful to teen health and should be stopped”. Child recruits are
>> more likely than adult recruits to end up in frontline combat, they add.
>>
>> It was revealed in 2019 that the UK continued to send child soldiers to
>> fight in Iraq and Afghanistan despite pledging to end the practice. The
>> UK says it does not send under-18s to warzones, as required by the UN
>> Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict,
>> known as the “child soldiers treaty”.
>>
>> The UK, however, deployed five 17-year-olds to Iraq or Afghanistan
>> between 2007 and 2010: it claims to have done so mistakenly. Previous to
>> this, a minister admitted that teenagers had also erroneously been sent
>> into battle between 2003 and 2005, insisting it would not happen again.
>>
>> The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child expressed concern at the
>> UK’s recruitment policy in 2008 and 2016, and recommended that the
>> government “raise the minimum age for recruitment into the armed forces
>> to 18 years in order to promote the protection of children through an
>> overall higher legal standard”. Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human
>> Rights, the children’s commissioners for the four jurisdictions of the
>> UK, along with children’s rights organisations, all support this call.
>
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> > Especially for the lunatic clown Robert Henderson who thinks the EVIL
> > BLOOD THIRSTY THIEVING ROGUE STATE is an angel.
> >
> > Everything about the WEST is FAKE, except their "genius fellatio
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> >
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> >
> >
> > https://declassifieduk.org/explainer-is-the-uk-a-rogue-state-17-british-policies-violating-domestic-or-international-law/
> >
> > Explainer: Is the UK a rogue state? 17 British policies violating
> > domestic or international law
> >
> > UK governments routinely claim to uphold national and international law..
> > But the reality of British policies is quite different, especially when
> > it comes to foreign policy and so-called ‘national security’. This
> > explainer summarises 17 long-running government policies which violate
> > UK domestic or international law.
> >
> > MARK CURTIS
> >
> > 7 February 2020
> >
> > British foreign secretary Dominic Raab recently described the “rule of
> > international law” as one of the “guiding lights” of UK foreign policy.
> > By contrast, the government regularly chides states it opposes, such as
> > Russia or Iran, as violators of international law. These governments are
> > often consequently termed “rogue states” in the mainstream media, the
> > supposed antithesis of how “we” operate.
> >
> > The following list of 17 policies may not be exhaustive, but it suggests
> > that the term “rogue state” is not sensationalist or misplaced when it
> > comes to describing Britain’s own foreign and “security” policies.
> >
> > These serial violations suggest that parliamentary and public oversight
> > over executive policy-making in the UK is not fit for purpose and that
> > new mechanisms are needed to restrain the excesses of the British state..
> > The Royal Air Force’s drone war
> >
> > Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) operates a drone programme in support of
> > the US involving a fleet of British “Reaper” drones operating since
> > 2007. They have been used by the UK to strike targets in Afghanistan,
> > Iraq and Syria.
> >
> > Four RAF bases in the UK support the US drone war. The joint UK and US
> > spy base at Menwith Hill in Yorkshire, northern England, facilitates US
> > drone strikes in Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia. US drone strikes,
> > involving an assassination programme begun by president Barack Obama,
> > are widely regarded as illegal under international law, breaching
> > fundamental human rights. Up to 1,700 civilian adults and children have
> > been killed in so-called “targeted killings”.
> >
> > Amnesty International notes that British backing is “absolutely crucial
> > to the US lethal drones programme, providing support for various US
> > surveillance programmes, vital intelligence exchanges and in some cases
> > direct involvement from UK personnel in identifying and tracking targets
> > for US lethal operations, including drone strikes that may have been
> > unlawful”.
> >
> > Chagos Islands
> >
> > Britain has violated international law in the case of the Chagos Islands
> > in the Indian Ocean since it expelled the inhabitants in the 1960s to
> > make way for a US military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island.
> >
> > Harold Wilson’s Labour government separated the islands from then
> > British colony Mauritius in 1965 in breach of a UN resolution banning
> > the breakup of colonies before independence. London then formed a new
> > colonial entity, the British Indian Ocean Territory, which is now an
> > Overseas Territory.
> >
> > In 2015, a UN Tribunal ruled that the UK’s proposed “marine protected
> > area” around the islands — shown by Wikileaks publications to be a ruse
> > to keep the islanders from returning — was unlawful since it undermined
> > the rights of Mauritius.
> >
> > Then in February 2019, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled in
> > an advisory opinion that Britain must end its administration of the
> > Chagos islands “as rapidly as possible”. The UN General Assembly adopted
> > a resolution in May 2019 welcoming the ICJ ruling and “demanding that
> > the United Kingdom unconditionally withdraw its colonial administration
> > from the area within six months”. The UK government has rejected the calls.
> > Defying the UN over the Falklands
> >
> > The UN’s 24-country Special Committee on Decolonisation — its principal
> > body addressing issues concerning decolonisation — has repeatedly called
> > on the UK government to negotiate a resolution to the dispute over the
> > status of the Falklands. In its latest call, in June 2019, the committee
> > approved a draft resolution “reiterating that the only way to end the
> > special and particular colonial situation of the Falkland Islands
> > (Malvinas) is through a peaceful and negotiated settlement of the
> > sovereignty dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom”.
> >
> > The British government consistently rejects these demands. Last year, it
> > stated:
> >
> > “The Decolonisation Committee no longer has a relevant role to play with
> > respect to British Overseas Territories. They all have a large measure
> > of self government, have chosen to retain their links with the UK, and
> > therefore should have been delisted a long time ago.”
> >
> > In 2016, the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf issued
> > a report finding that the Falkland Islands are located in Argentina’s
> > territorial waters.
> > BECOME A SUPPORTER TODAY FROM ONLY £20 A YEAR
> > Israel and settlement goods
> >
> > Although Britain regularly condemns Israeli settlements in the occupied
> > territories as illegal, in line with international law, it permits trade
> > in goods produced on those settlements. It also does not keep a record
> > of imports that come from the settlements — which include wine, olive
> > oil and dates — into the UK.
> >
> > UN Security Council resolutions require all states to “distinguish, in
> > their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State of Israel
> > and the territories occupied since 1967”. The UK is failing to do this.
> > Israel’s blockade of Gaza
> >
> > Israel’s blockade of Gaza, imposed in 2007 following the territory’s
> > takeover by Hamas, is widely regarded as illegal. Senior UN officials, a
> > UN independent panel of experts, and Amnesty International all agree
> > that the infliction of “collective punishment” on the population of Gaza
> > contravenes international human rights and humanitarian law.
> >
> > Gaza has about 1.8 million inhabitants who remain “locked in” and denied
> > free access to the remainder of putative Palestine (the West Bank) and
> > the outside world. It has poverty and unemployment rates that reached
> > nearly 75% in 2019.
> >
> > Through its naval blockade, the Israeli navy restricts Palestinians’
> > fishing rights, fires on local fishermen and has intercepted ships
> > delivering humanitarian aid. Britain, and all states, have an obligation
> > “to ensure compliance by Israel with international humanitarian law” in
> > Gaza.
> >
> > However, instead of doing so, the UK regularly collaborates with the
> > navy enforcing the blockade. In August 2019, Britain’s Royal Navy took
> > part in the largest international naval exercise ever held by Israel,
> > off the country’s Mediterranean shore. In November 2016 and December
> > 2017, British warships conducted military exercises with their Israeli
> > allies.
> > Exports of surveillance equipment
> >
> > Declassified revealed that the UK recently exported telecommunications
> > interception equipment or software to 13 countries, including
> > authoritarian regimes in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia
> > and Oman. Such technology can enable security forces to monitor the
> > private activities of groups or individuals and crack down on political
> > opponents.
> >
> > The UAE has been involved in programmes monitoring domestic activists
> > using spyware. In 2017 and 2018, British exporters were given four
> > licences to export telecommunications interception equipment, components
> > or software to the UAE.
> >
> > UK arms export guidelines state that the government will “not grant a
> > licence if there is a clear risk that the items might be used for
> > internal repression”. Reports by Amnesty International document human
> > rights abuses in the cases of UAE, Saudi Arabia and Oman, suggesting
> > that British approval of such exports to these countries is prima facie
> > unlawful.
> > Arms exports to Saudi Arabia
> >
> > Saudi Arabia has been accused by the UN and others of violating
> > international humanitarian law and committing war crimes in its war in
> > Yemen, which began in March 2015. The UK has licensed nearly £5-billion
> > worth of arms to the Saudi regime during this time. In addition, the RAF
> > is helping to maintain Saudi warplanes at key operating bases and stores
> > and issues bombs for use in Yemen.
> >
> > Following legal action brought by the Campaign Against the Arms Trade,
> > the UK Court of Appeal ruled in June 2019 that ministers had illegally
> > signed off on arms exports without properly assessing the risk to
> > civilians. The court ruled that the government must reconsider the
> > export licences in accordance with the correct legal approach.
> >
> > The ruling followed a report by a cross-party House of Lords committee,
> > published earlier in 2019, which concluded that Britain is breaking
> > international law by selling weapons to Saudi Arabia and should suspend
> > some export licences immediately.
> > RELATED
> >
> > Julian Assange’s arbitrary detention and torture
> >
> > In the case of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange — currently held in
> > Belmarsh maximum-security prison in London — the UK is defying repeated
> > opinions of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) and the
> > UN special rapporteur on torture.
> >
> > The latter, Nils Melzer, has called on the UK government to release
> > Assange on the grounds that officials are contributing to his
> > psychological torture and ill treatment. Melzer has also called for UK
> > officials to be investigated for possible “criminal conduct” as
> > government policy “severely undermines the credibility of [its]
> > commitment to the prohibition of torture… as well as to the rule of law
> > more generally”.
> >
> > The WGAD — the supreme international body scrutinising this issue — has
> > repeatedly demanded that the UK government end Assange’s “arbitrary
> > detention”. Although the UN states that WGAD determinations are legally
> > binding, its calls have been consistently rejected by the UK government..
> > Covert wars
> >
> > Covert military operations to subvert foreign governments, such as
> > Britain’s years-long operation in Syria to overthrow the Assad regime,
> > are unlawful. As a House of Commons briefing notes, “forcible assistance
> > to opposition forces is illegal”.
> >
> > A precedent was set in the Nicaragua case in the 1980s, when US-backed
> > covert forces (the “Contras”) sought to overthrow the Sandinista
> > government. The International Court of Justice held that a third state
> > may not forcibly help the opposition to overthrow a government since it
> > breached the principles of non-intervention and prohibition on the use
> > of force.
> >
> > As Declassified has shown, the UK is currently engaged in seven covert
> > wars, including in Syria, with minimal parliamentary oversight.
> > Government policy is “not to comment” on the activities of its special
> > forces “because of the security implications”. The public’s ability to
> > scrutinise policy is also restricted since the UK’s Freedom of
> > Information Act applies an “absolute exemption” to special forces. This
> > is not the case for allied powers such as the US and Canada.
> > Torture and the refusal to hold an inquiry
> >
> > In 2018 a report by parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee
> > found that the UK had been complicit in cases of torture and other ill
> > treatment of detainees in the so-called “war on terror”.. The inquiry
> > examined the participation of MI6 (the secret intelligence service), MI5
> > (the domestic security service) and Ministry of Defence (MOD) personnel
> > in interrogating detainees held primarily by the US in Afghanistan, Iraq
> > and Guantanamo Bay during 2001-10.
> >
> > The report found that there were 232 cases where UK personnel supplied
> > questions or intelligence to foreign intelligence agents after they knew
> > or suspected that a detainee was being mistreated. It also found 198
> > cases where UK personnel received intelligence from foreign agents
> > obtained from detainees whom they knew or suspected to have been mistreated.
> >
> > In one case, MI6 “sought and obtained authorisation from the foreign
> > secretary” (then Jack Straw, in Tony Blair’s government) for the costs
> > of funding a plane which was involved in rendering a suspect.
> >
> > After the report was published, the government announced it was refusing
> > to hold a judge-led, independent inquiry into the UK’s role in rendition
> > and torture as it had previously promised to do. In 2019, human rights
> > group Reprieve, together with Conservative and Labour MPs, instigated a
> > legal challenge to the government over this refusal–which the High Court
> > has agreed to hear.
> >
> > The UN special rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer, has formally warned
> > the UK that its refusal to launch a judicial inquiry into torture and
> > rendition breaches international law, specifically the UN Convention
> > Against Torture. He has written a private “intervention” letter to the
> > UK foreign secretary stating that the government has “a legal obligation
> > to investigate and to prosecute”.
> >
> > Melzer accuses the government of engaging in a “conscious policy” of
> > co-operating with torture since 9/11, saying it is “impossible” the
> > practice was not approved or at least tolerated by top officials.
> > UK’s secret torture policy
> >
> > The MOD was revealed in 2019 to be operating a secret policy allowing
> > ministers to approve actions which could lead to the torture of
> > detainees. The policy, contained in an internal MOD document dated
> > November 2018, allows ministers to approve passing information to allies
> > even if there is a risk of torture, if “the potential benefits justify
> > accepting the risk and legal consequences”.
> >
> > This policy also provides for ministers to approve lists of individuals
> > about whom information may be shared despite a serious risk they could
> > face mistreatment. One leading lawyer has said that domestic and
> > international legislation on the prohibition of torture is clear and
> > that the MOD policy supports breaking of the law by ministers.
> > Amnesty for crimes committed by soldiers
> >
> > There is a long history of British soldiers committing crimes during
> > wars. In 2019 the government outlined plans to grant immunity for
> > offences by soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan and Northern Ireland that were
> > committed more than 10 years before.
> >
> > These plans have been condemned by the UN Committee Against Torture,
> > which has called on the government to “refrain from enacting legislation
> > that would grant amnesty or pardon where torture is concerned. It should
> > also ensure that all victims of such torture and ill-treatment obtain
> > redress”.
> >
> > The committee has specifically urged the UK to “establish responsibility
> > and ensure accountability for any torture and ill-treatment committed by
> > UK personnel in Iraq from 2003 to 2009, specifically by establishing a
> > single, independent, public inquiry to investigate allegations of such
> > conduct.”
> >
> > The government’s proposals are also likely to breach UK obligations
> > under the European Convention on Human Rights, which obliges states to
> > investigate breaches of the right to life or the prohibition on torture..
> >
> > GCHQ’s mass surveillance
> >
> > Files revealed by US whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013 show that the
> > UK intelligence agency GCHQ had been secretly intercepting, processing
> > and storing data concerning millions of people’s private communications,
> > including people of no intelligence interest — in a programme named
> > Tempora. Snowden also revealed that the British government was accessing
> > personal communications and data collected by the US National Security
> > Agency and other countries’ intelligence agencies.
> >
> > All of this was taking place without public consent or awareness, with
> > no basis in law and with no proper safeguards. Since these revelations,
> > there has been a long-running legal battle over the UK’s unlawful use of
> > these previously secret surveillance powers.
> >
> > In September 2018, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that UK laws
> > enabling mass surveillance were unlawful, violating rights to privacy
> > and freedom of expression. The court observed that the UK’s regime for
> > authorising bulk interception was incapable of keeping “interference” to
> > what is “necessary in a democratic society”.
> >
> > The UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the body which considers
> > complaints against the security services, also found that UK
> > intelligence agencies had unlawfully spied on the communications of
> > Amnesty International and the Legal Resources Centre in South Africa.
> >
> > In 2014, revelations also confirmed that GCHQ had been granted authority
> > to secretly eavesdrop on legally privileged lawyer-client
> > communications, and that MI5 and MI6 adopted similar policies. The
> > guidelines appeared to permit surveillance of journalists and others
> > deemed to work in “sensitive professions” handling confidential information.
> > MI5 personal data
> >
> > In 2019, MI5 was found to have for years unlawfully retained innocent
> > British people’s online location data, calls, messages and web browsing
> > history without proper protections, according to the Investigatory
> > Powers Commissioner’s Office which upholds British privacy protections.
> > MI5 had also failed to give senior judges accurate information about
> > repeated breaches of its duty to delete bulk surveillance data, and was
> > criticised for mishandling sensitive legally privileged material.
> >
> > The commissioner concluded that the way MI5 was holding and handling
> > people’s data was “undoubtedly unlawful”. Warrants for MI5’s bulk
> > surveillance were issued by senior judges on the understanding that the
> > agency’s legal data handling obligations were being met — when they were
> > not.
> >
> > “MI5 have been holding on to people’s data—ordinary people’s data, your
> > data, my data — illegally for many years,” said Megan Goulding, a lawyer
> > for rights organisation Liberty, which brought the case. “Not only that,
> > they’ve been trying to keep their really serious errors secret — secret
> > from the security services watchdog, who’s supposed to know about them,
> > secret from the Home Office, secret from the prime minister and secret
> > from the public.”
> > Intelligence agencies committing criminal offences
> >
> > MI5 has been operating under a secret policy that allows its agents to
> > commit serious crimes during counter-terrorism operations in the UK,
> > according to lawyers for human rights organisations brin
> >
> > ging a case to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.
> >
> > The policy, referred to as the “third direction”, allows MI5 officers to
> > permit the people they have recruited as agents to commit crimes in
> > order to secure access to information that could be used to prevent
> > other offences being committed. The crimes potentially include murder,
> > kidnap and torture and have operated for decades. MI5 officers are,
> > meanwhile, immune from prosecution.
> >
> > A lawyer for the human rights organisations argues that the issues
> > raised by the case are “not hypothetical”, submitting that “in the past,
> > authorisation of agent participation in criminality appears to have led
> > to grave breaches of fundamental rights”. He points to the 1989 murder
> > of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane, an attack carried out by loyalist
> > paramilitaries, including some agents working for the British state.
> > The ‘James Bond clause’
> >
> > British intelligence officers can be authorised to commit crimes outside
> > the UK. Section 7 of the 1994 Intelligence Services Act vacates UK
> > criminal and civil law as long as a senior government minister has
> > signed a written authorisation that committing a criminal act overseas
> > is permissible. This is sometimes known as the “James Bond clause”.
> >
> > British spies were reportedly given authority to break the law overseas
> > on 13 occasions in 2014 under this clause. GCHQ was given five
> > authorisations “removing liability for activities including those
> > associated with certain types of intelligence gathering and interference
> > with computers, mobile phones and other types of electronic equipment”.
> > MI6, meanwhile, was given eight such authorisations in 2014.
> > Two cadets from the UK military raise funds for the Royal British Legion
> > on New Market Street, Chorley, UK, 2015. (Photo: Flickr)
> > Underage soldiers
> >
> > Britain is the only country in Europe and Nato to allow direct
> > enlistment into the army at the age of 16. One in four UK army recruits
> > is now under the age of 18. According to the editors of the British
> > Medical Journal, “there is no justification for this state policy, which
> > is harmful to teen health and should be stopped”. Child recruits are
> > more likely than adult recruits to end up in frontline combat, they add..
> >
> > It was revealed in 2019 that the UK continued to send child soldiers to
> > fight in Iraq and Afghanistan despite pledging to end the practice. The
> > UK says it does not send under-18s to warzones, as required by the UN
> > Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict,
> > known as the “child soldiers treaty”.
> >
> > The UK, however, deployed five 17-year-olds to Iraq or Afghanistan
> > between 2007 and 2010: it claims to have done so mistakenly. Previous to
> > this, a minister admitted that teenagers had also erroneously been sent
> > into battle between 2003 and 2005, insisting it would not happen again.
> >
> > The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child expressed concern at the
> > UK’s recruitment policy in 2008 and 2016, and recommended that the
> > government “raise the minimum age for recruitment into the armed forces
> > to 18 years in order to promote the protection of children through an
> > overall higher legal standard”. Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human
> > Rights, the children’s commissioners for the four jurisdictions of the
> > UK, along with children’s rights organisations, all support this call.
> Why oh why oh why oh Why oh why oh why oh Why oh why oh why oh Why oh why oh why oh Why oh why oh why oh was the the blessed guiding hand of the Raj so carelessly thrown away./... RH

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