In March the UK admitted breaching the human rights of the abused Iraqis

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Posted by otec on Jul-10-2008 16:31:

In March the UK admitted breaching the human rights of the abused Iraqis

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Iraqis to get �3m in MoD damages

Timeline: Iraqi abuse

The Ministry of Defence has agreed to pay almost �3m in damages to Iraqis who were tortured by UK troops in Basra in 2003, their solicitors say.

Nine Iraqi men who were mistreated and the father of a man beaten to death in custody will share �2.83m in compensation.

The payout came after two days of negotiations between lawyers for the group and the MoD.

In March the MoD admitted breaching the human rights of the abused Iraqis.

At that time, Defence Secretary Des Browne said the government admitted "substantive breaches" of parts of the European Convention on Human Rights which protect the right to life and prohibit torture.

BBC correspondent Angus Crawford said it was unclear how the compensation would be divided between the 10 men, and the solicitors were pleased that an amicable settlement had been reached.

The Ministry of Defence is yet to comment on the compensation.

Court martial

One of the men was Baha Mousa, a 26-year-old hotel receptionist was beaten to death in September 2003.

He and the other Iraqi men were arrested at a hotel where weapons and suspected bomb-making equipment were found in 2003. Mr Mousa was detained under suspicion of being an insurgent.

Seven members of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment (QLR), now the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, faced the most expensive court martial in British history over the case.

Six soldiers were acquitted after the six-month hearing in Bulford, Wiltshire, but a seventh soldier admitted treating Iraqis inhumanely.

Cpl Donald Payne was jailed for a year and dismissed from the Army.

Mr Mousa's post-mortem examination showed he suffered asphyxiation and had some 93 injuries to his body.

A public inquiry into his death was announced by Mr Browne in May 2008.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7500204.stm

What if someone has beaten Tony "The Pink Puddle" Blair to death?

Posted by otec on Jul-11-2008 18:53:

Posted by otec on Jul-12-2008 20:32:

Posted by Magnetonium on Jul-14-2008 20:33:

The article is pretty much self-explanatory. UK has much higher standards than USA's military, and is generally better respected, and for that matter they decided to keep their good image and pay a decent fine for the crime of few soldiers. And come on, crimes committed were not done by the whole British army and wasnt ordered by superiors, but merely some soldiers who are retarded and think that they are above the law, just because they are in Iraq. Too bad the punishment for the guilty soldiers was minimal.

There's a reason for greater stability in the British administered Iraqi south. They treat Iraqis better, have better cohesion with the locals and aren't represented by Bush. But British have since withdrew most of their forces, I believe ...

In any case, there should have never been any occupation of Iraq, and this murder and hundreds of thousands of others would not have happened.