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Iraq
abuse allegations must be probed: Britain
Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:43:34 PM, IANS
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London:
Britain Sunday said allegations of killing of civilians and
torture of detainees in Iraq made in leaked US documents posted on
WikiLeaks must be properly probed, a media report said.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who has previously said he
believes the Iraq war was "illegal", said it was up to the US
administration to answer for the actions of its forces, the Daily
Telegraph reported Sunday.
His comments contrasted with a statement Saturday by the ministry
of defence, which warned that the posting of 400,000 classified US
military logs on the WikiLeaks website could endanger the lives of
British forces.
"We can bemoan how these leaks occurred, but I think the nature of
the allegations made are extraordinarily serious. They are
distressing to read about and they are very serious," Clegg told
BBC One.
"I am assuming the US administration will want to provide its own
answer. It's not for us to tell them how to do that."
Asked if there should be an inquiry into the role of British
troops, Clegg said: "I think anything that suggests that basic
rules of war, conflict and engagement have been broken or that
torture has been in any way condoned are extremely serious and
need to be looked at."
The whistle-blower website Saturday released another 400,000
classified US documents that included details of 15,000 previously
unrecorded civilian deaths in Iraq, and showed that US troops
routinely overlooked the torture and abuse of detainees by Iraqi
forces.
A top UN official Saturday said the US government has a moral duty
to investigate whether its officials were involved in torture or
complicity in torture following the revelations.
Manfred Nowak, the UN's special rapporteur on torture, had
reportedly said that such a duty existed even if the alleged human
rights violations dated back to a previous government.
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