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US President Trump s Pardoning of Blackwater Private Security Contractors Guards, Convicted in 2015 for War Crimes, an Affront to Justice – UN Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries
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Expertos de la ONU condenan el indulto de Trump a los contratistas de Blackwater condenados por crímenes de guerra en Irak
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Nisour Square massacre: UN says Trump s move to pardon Blackwater men violates int l law
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Wednesday Dec 30, 2020
Blackwater Worldwide security guard Nick Slatten (C) and attorneys leave the federal courthouse after being arraigned with four fellow Blackwater guards in US, January 6, 2009. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/Files
UN experts term pardon an affront to justice and to the victims of the Nisour Square massacre and their families
“Pardons violate US obligations under international law [.] undermine humanitarian law and human rights at a global level,” they observe
US Blackwater contractors had opened fire in 2007 in traffic at a junction in Baghdad, killing 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians and wounding 20 others
December 31, 2020
Five independent UN experts condemned US President Donald Trump’s pardoning of private security contractors, convicted in 2015 for war crimes in Iraq, on Wednesday. Courtesy photo
NEW YORK Five independent UN experts condemned US President Donald Trump’s pardoning of private security contractors, convicted in 2015 for war crimes in Iraq, on Wednesday.
The four Blackwater Worldwide contractors were prosecuted and found guilty of multiple criminal acts committed during a 2007 massacre at Nisour Square in Baghdad, which left 14 unarmed civilians dead and at least 17 wounded.
“Pardoning the Blackwater contractors is an affront to justice and to the victims of the Nisour Square massacre and their families,” said Jelena Aparac, Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group on the use of mercenaries.
December 30, 2020 12:49 p.m.
President Donald Trump’s pre-Christmas pardon of four Blackwater contractors convicted of killing more than a dozen Iraqi civilians in 2007 violated U.S. obligations under international law, United Nations experts said in a Wednesday statement.
“These pardons violate U.S. obligations under international law and more broadly undermine humanitarian law and human rights at a global level,” said Jelena Aparac, chair of the U.N.’s working group on the use of mercenaries.
The human rights experts at the U.N. noted in the statement that the Geneva Conventions require states to hold war criminals accountable for their crimes, even when those crimes are committed by private security contractors. The four former contractors who were pardoned last week opened fire in a Baghdad square over a decade ago and killing 14 Iraqi civilians.
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