Iraq War. Photo: Public Domain
Despite thousands of allegations of crimes committed by the British army in Iraq, not one case has been prosecuted in a court - how can the ICC say there isn’t a cover-up?
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Chris Nineham
Chris Nineham is a founder member of Stop the War and Counterfire, speaking regularly around the country on behalf of both. He is author of The People Versus Tony Blair and Capitalism and Class Consciousness: the ideas of Georg Lukacs.
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