Executive Director @CeasefireCentre War, justice, #CivilianRights
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While the UK gov was arguing in Parliament that allegations of civilian death and injury in #Iraq and #Afghanistan were ‘vexatious’, all the time they were quietly settling compensation claims from civilians who had suffered appalling harm.
#reparations
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With Assad now gone for almost 2 years, where is justice in #Syria? We take a close look at what has been achieved — and what there is still to do.
TLDR: it's not what human rights activists had imagined...
Proud to partner with @STJ_SYRIA_ENG
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Those European prosecutions should continue, not least because the violations continue in Syria (Suwayda, Coastal region) and the Syrian gov’s approach to transitional justice doesn’t extend beyond accountability for the Assad regime.
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And here in Arabic:
ENDS
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A ceasefire in name only.
I spoke to Al Jazeera on the anniversary of the #Gaza ceasefire agreement and just 3 days after the anniversary of the 7 Oct attacks.
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This is the 2nd high profile case for the Met war crimes team, after a Syrian colonel was charged earlier this year.
Things are speeding up.
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The U.S. attacks on an Iranian girls’ school and sports centre reveal an evident failure to implement the precautionary obligation. But are they also war crimes? ⬇️
I have analyzed several of the legal issues raised in Minab and Lamerd around feasibility of precautions, AI-enabled warfare and civilian harm in a piece I wrote for @opiniojuris here: opiniojuris.org/2026/09/18/u… 1/4
The failure to register civilian harm “essentially means that the UK is incapable of understanding the actual harm its military actions cause to civilians, and therefore incapable of effectively mitigating it,” said Mae Thompson of @CeasefireCentre
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Mark Lattimer retweeted
Sterk draadje dat uitlegt waarom de Israëlische documentaire NAZA "doordringt tot de kern van de reden waarom de aanvallen op Gaza schendingen van het oorlogsrecht vormen en tevens oorlogsmisdaden zijn".
The controversies over NAZA on here largely miss what is important about the film.
NAZA goes to the heart of why attacks on Gaza are violations of the laws of war and also constitute war crimes.
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Mark Lattimer retweeted
Good 🧵. Disproportionate attacks are just as illegal, and potentially just as criminal, as attacks exclusively directed at civilians.
That said, the film also reportedly describes IDF snipers shooting civilians waiting for food or entering 'elimination zones.'
The controversies over NAZA on here largely miss what is important about the film.
NAZA goes to the heart of why attacks on Gaza are violations of the laws of war and also constitute war crimes.
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The controversies over NAZA on here largely miss what is important about the film.
NAZA goes to the heart of why attacks on Gaza are violations of the laws of war and also constitute war crimes.
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This is an essential element of the legal case against IDF conduct, complementing the detailed and irrefutable evidence of actual civilian harm that Palestinian journalists have worked against the odds (& in many cases died) to provide.
7/8
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For an insight, look up the documentaries by Palestinian film-makers shown at the Venice festival: Conversation With The Sea by Muayad Alayan, and Citizen Osama by Ahmed Hassouna.
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