Trial of UK soldiers for killing Iraqi man influenced by Tony Blair?

The UK government files suggest that Tony Blair pressured officials to ensure British soldiers accused of mistreating Iraqi civilians during the Iraq war would not be tried in civil courts. Blair deemed it “essential” that courts like the International Criminal Court did not investigate UK actions in Iraq. More than 200,000 Iraqi civilians, 179 British soldiers, and over 4,000 US soldiers were killed during the war, which ended in December 2011. The ICC ended its inquiries into British war crimes in Iraq in 2020.

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