- War & Law
Saturday February 10th 2007, 8:33 pm
Filed under: Uncategorized

BBC AND GAZA Letter in Guardian about BBC decision not to broadcast Gaza appeal. “While its decision not to broadcast is unconscionable on humanitarian grounds alone, the BBC also misses a vital opportunity to compensate for the lack of access Israel had imposed earlier.” [Jan 09]

ANTI-WAR HYPOCRISY Letter in Guardian about anti-war hypocrisy in Brent East (interlocutors) “Only the Green position is both morally consistent and intellectually unassailable.” [Apr 05]

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT Letter in Willesden Observer series about cheap election tactics. “Blair, Bush, and their cronies must be tried at the International Criminal Court for their own war crimes.” [Apr 05]

BUSH NOMINATION Letter in Guardian about Wolfowitz nomination. “Let us hope that this latest Bush nomination gets kicked into the long grass.” [Mar 05]

CLARKE ON TERROR Letter in Evening Standard about Clarke on Terrorism. “Charles Clarke may have committed a slip of the tongue, but he succinctly betrays the recklessness of this government in its protection of our fundamental liberties.” [Jan 05]

EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLING Letter in Daily Star about Rapid Action Batallion in Bangladesh. “I do find it deeply concerning to have to explain why, in the twenty-first century, state-sponsored agents in FBI-copycat fatigues should not be given licence to undertake extra-judicial execution.” [Jan 05]

BLAIR IMPEACHMENT Letter in Evening Standard about Blair impeachment justice. “If the Parliamentary Privileges Committee ruled in 1999 that the power of impeachment “may be obsolete”, that only betrays the contempt with which parliamentary scrutiny was held then and still is.” [Aug 04]

GUANTANAMO Letter in Wembley and Harrow Observer series highlighting Guantanamo injustice. Whilst the US transgresses every international human rights statute in the book - including one that they, together with Somalia, refuse to ratify, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - the UK government is complicit through its reprehensible inaction.” [Feb 04]