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.
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