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GENEVA: US President Donald Trump’s pardons of four Blackwater contractors convicted of killing civilians in a 2007 Baghdad massacre is a violation of US obligations under international law, UN experts said on Wednesday.
“The Geneva Conventions oblige states to hold war criminals accountable for their crimes, even when they act as private security contractors,” Jelena Aparac, head of the UN working group on the use of mercenaries, said in a statement.
“These pardons violate US obligations under international law and more broadly undermine humanitarian law and human rights at a global level,” she said.
Trump granted pardons to the guards on Dec 22 among a slew of other controversial pardons before he leaves office next month.
Donald Trump pardoned four contractors who killed civilians in 2007.
They fired on people in Baghdad s crowded Nisur Square and 14 dead.
US President Donald Trump s pardons of four Blackwater contractors convicted of killing civilians in a 2007 Baghdad massacre is a violation of US obligations under international law, UN experts said on Wednesday.
READ | The Geneva Conventions oblige states to hold war criminals accountable for their crimes, even when they act as private security contractors, Jelena Aparac, head of the UN working group on the use of mercenaries, said in a statement. These pardons violate US obligations under international law and more broadly undermine humanitarian law and human rights at a global level, she said.
Trump s Blackwater pardons an affront to justice : UN experts
Trump granted pardons to the guards on December 22 among a slew of other controversial pardons before he leaves office next month.
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GENEVA: US President Donald Trump s pardons of four Blackwater contractors convicted of killing civilians in a 2007 Baghdad massacre is a violation of US obligations under international law, UN experts said Wednesday. The Geneva Conventions oblige states to hold war criminals accountable for their crimes, even when they act as private security contractors, Jelena Aparac, head of the UN working group on the use of mercenaries, said in a statement.
de facto and
de jure agents of the Federal Government. Since their actions in self-defense were objectively reasonable pursuant to myriad cases applying the
Graham v. Connor
2 standard of reasonableness, the Defendants should have been afforded Qualified Immunity from pecuniary liability and, axiomatically, criminal prosecution.
The Blackwater PSD team members reasonably acted in self-defense and defense of others under situations that were “tense, uncertain and rapidly evolving.” Based on the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of the insurgent threats at the time – using vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices, follow-on small arms fire3, and dressing in the uniforms of New Iraqi Army and Police uniforms – it was reasonable for the team to believe they were under imminent and actual threat of death or grievous bodily injury.