More than 400 ISIS fighters have returned to the UK without being prosecuted for atrocities, but call on Britain to do more to bring home the kids of the jihad bride
Members of Congress and fellow MPs found that more than 400 people fighting so-called Islamic State (IS) groups have returned to the UK and have not been prosecuted.
The Joint Parliamentary Human Rights Committee (JCHR) said that fighters involved in killings, terrorist attacks and persecution of ethnic minorities in the Middle East must face justice.
IS once owned a large amount of land in Syria and Iraq, responsible for a wide range of terror, murder and rape campaigns, often targeting a few religious groups such as Yazidis and Shia Muslims.
Now, members of MPs and companions on JCHR have called on the minister to ensure that former officials can be tried in the British court rather than in Iraq or Syria where the crime occurred.
The commission said the government had previously said that any such offence was “the best investigation and prosecuted under local law”.
But members of JCHR aid are unlikely to happen in the country where they operate.
Their latest report says: “In places where the UK has jurisdiction over international crimes, the UK should seek to investigate and prosecute such crimes.”
Unless a British national, resident or “comply with the Service Personnel Act”, it is impossible to prosecute anyone who commits war crimes or genocide.
IS has held a large amount of land in Syria and Iraq, responsible for a wide range of terror, murder and rape campaigns, often targeting ethnic religious groups such as Yazidis and Shia Muslims.
Large-scale funeral of Yazidi victims at the Islamic State (IS) group in Kojo, Iraqi village in northern Iraq, February 6, 2021
An Iraqi man prayed at a murdered relative to the site of a mass grave that was believed to contain the bodies of Iraqi soldiers killed by Iraqi militants when they occupied the Speicher Camp Speicher military base in Tikrit, Iraq.
The committee added that the minister must use the current Crime and Police Act for Parliament to amend the law and ensure that anyone suspected of genocide or war crimes can face justice in the UK.
Lord Alton of Liverpool Chairman Liverpool said: “It’s not that Britain can simply wash hands because it happens overseas. We know that under the Dash regime, British nationals committed the most horrific crimes in Iraq and Syria and we have a responsibility to see them brought to justice.
“To date, there has been no successful prosecution of UK international crimes, which we believe is unacceptable.”
“We would like to see more actions by the government in identifying perpetrators, some of whom may return to the UK and some may be detained in camps in Syria. This will require better coordination of law enforcement and criminal justice, and also the need to remove barriers to preventing certain prosecutions. ”
JCHR also called for greater transparency to understand how the government uses its power to deprive British citizens of citizenship because of its connection to IS.
Shamima Begum, who was 15 years ago, went to Is-ter-terrority at the age of 15, is the most famous example of the state’s use of such power.
But the report says Britain “uses more orders to deprive citizens than almost any country in the world” and ministers must take that into account.
Syrian women sit by the fence in a sandstorm in a temporary refugee camp in Ain Issa village, fleeing people from the Syrian stronghold of Raqa, a group of ISIS.
Liverpool’s chairman Lord Liverpool said: “It’s not that Britain can simply wash hands because it happens overseas”
JCHR also called for greater transparency to understand how the government used its power to deprive British citizens of citizenship – Shamima Begum, who went to IS -DEL -DERNORITION, 15 years ago, is the most famous example of the state’s use of this power
More has to be done to repatriate children in camps in northeast Syria, where conditions are “tragic”, the committee said.
He added: “It is in the UK’s interest to make sure they don’t become the radical new generation and have to be brought home.”
When they seized control of the Middle East between 2014 and 2019, they launched a brutal crackdown on religious minorities.
In 2016, former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced that IS violence against Shia Muslims and others in Iraq and Syria constituted genocide.
