What have the Red Cross and Amnesty International alleged about British troops?
What have the Red Cross and Amnesty International alleged about British troops? The Red Cross listed breaches of the Geneva Conventions, including the routine hooding of prisoners and the death in custody of a man named Baha Mousa. Soldiers have been accused by Amnesty of beatings with rifle butts, the kicking of people on the ground and denial of food and water to captives. Yesterday it said UK soldiers had shot dead unarmed civilians. Why did the reports plunge the Government into crisis? Apart from the reports’ shocking contents, ministers have given widely different accounts of the date when claims that Iraqi captives were humiliated were first brought to their notice. The confusion comes after photographs in the Daily Mirror purporting to show a prisoner being beaten helped undermine the moral case for the war in Iraq. What prompted the crisis? The leaking of the Red Cross report to an American newspaper last Friday showing widespread violations of human rights by coalition troops
