Senior Israeli officer is scared of arrest

 
Post new topic   Reply to topic    Couchtripper Forum Index -> Pirty's Purgatory
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
faceless
admin


Joined: 25 Apr 2006

PostPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 10:25 pm    Post subject: Senior Israeli officer is scared of arrest Reply with quote


Senior Israeli officer cancels visit to UK fearing arrest
1 June 2012

A senior Israeli officer has cancelled a planned visit to Britain fearing arrest for alleged war crimes. Major-General Doron Almog is the ex-commanding officer of the Israel Defence Forces Southern Command. He was invited to a fundraising dinner in London later this month but senior government officials advised him to cancel his trip.

Despite the fact that the British government amended the procedures for the law of universal jurisdiction precisely to prevent such arrests, officials in Israel told Almog that they cannot guarantee that a warrant will not be issued for his arrest. He stands accused of committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip during Operation Cast Lead in 2008/9. More specifically, that he issued the order to raze 59 inhabited houses to the ground in the southern Gaza town of Rafah. Such an act is regarded as collective punishment, which is prohibited in international law. Almog was also one of the group of officers and politicians who decided to drop a one-ton-bomb on a house in a densely populated area of the Gaza Strip in order to assassinate Salah Shehadi in July, 2002. Fifteen people were killed in the explosion, including nine children; around 150 were injured.

This is not the first time that the major-general is at the centre of such concerns. Seven years ago he was tipped off that a British judge had issued an arrest warrant for him, so he didn't leave the aircraft on which he had arrived at Heathrow Airport, opting instead to fly straight back to Tel Aviv.

-------------------

nyer
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail
major.tom
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler


Joined: 21 Jan 2007
Location: BC, Canada

PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 5:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Being a paid killer for a pariah state limits one's travel options.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
faceless
admin


Joined: 25 Apr 2006

PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm just sickened that government people here gave him a warning. Surely warning him was some sort of crime in itself - like contempt?
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail
major.tom
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler


Joined: 21 Jan 2007
Location: BC, Canada

PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd presume there's an equivalent law that side of the pond for "Obstruction of Justice." That is, if the law is meant to apply to all. I'd be curious to know if it was actually the gov't itself that warned the Israeli gov't to avoid the "embarrassment" of allowing the prosecution of an official ally for war crimes. Time may tell.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic   Reply to topic    Couchtripper Forum Index -> Pirty's Purgatory All times are GMT
Page 1 of 1

 
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You can download files in this forum


Couchtripper - 2005-2015