Like all civilised countries, the UK claims universal jurisdiction over war crimes and crimes against humanity. It can prosecute war crimes dating back to 1991. Which makes it rather odd that more than 50 war criminals are living with impunity in the UK, including
senior officials from the regime of Saddam Hussein, a member of the Criminal Investigations Department in Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe, and a Congolese police chief who confessed to a crime during a media interview.The UK Home Office knows about these people, knows about the law, and has dutifully passed their information on to the police. And the UK police have done... nothing. Inciting genocide and torturing people to death aren't real crimes, as far as they're concerned. I guess they're too busy beating protestors and otherwise stomping on people trying to exercise their right to freedom of speech.
Such a systematic failure suggests nothing less than an official policy of turning a blind eye to and refusing to prosecute war crimes on the part of the UK Police. But there's a word for people who cover up crimes - "accessory" or co-conspirator". And if it is an official policy, then the officials responsible for it should be joining the people the people they are protecting, the torturers and genocidaires, in the dock.
