Nuclear Strike Would Be ‘As Grave a War Crime as It is Possible to Conceive’
SputnikNews.com
29.06.2017
Britain’s Attorney General is looking into an indictment brought forth against Prime Minister Theresa May by a group of peace activists over her government’s plans to use the UK’s Trident nuclear arsenal in the event of war. Speaking to Sputnik, Public Interest Case Against Trident (PICAT) organizer Robert Manson laid out the group’s case.
An alliance of nearly four hundred activists under the PICAT banner has presented the Attorney General’s Office with an indictment against Prime Minister May and Defense Secretary Michael Fallon amid statements by the officials on their readiness to use nuclear weapons, including on a first strike basis.
PICAT says the statements indicate planning for “indiscriminate mass slaughter,” which they say is a violation of section 51(1) of the International Criminal Court Act 2001 on war crimes and crimes against humanity, and section 1 of the UK Criminal Law Act 1977 on conspiracy to commit such crimes.
The case now needs the approval by the Attorney General’s Office in order to proceed.
Speaking to Radio Sputnik, PICAT organizer and retired solicitor Robert Manson laid out the basis for the group’s case.
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