A United Nations group said Wednesday President Trump
Donald Trump: Georgia’s signature audit detects no fraud in presidential election Pompeo calls for release of Chinese journalist jailed for coronavirus coveragePardons for several former Blackwater contractors convicted of killing more than a dozen civilians in Baghdad violated international law.
Reuters reported that the UN working group on the use of mercenaries condemned the action in a statement, and described Trump’s decision to pardon the four men as an offense to justice and an insult to justice. memory of the dead.
“Pardoning Blackwater contractors is an affront to justice and to the victims of the Nisour Square massacre and their families,” the group’s president, Jelena Aparac, said, according to the news agency.
“These pardons violate U.S. obligations under international law and, in general, undermine humanitarian and human rights law worldwide,” Aparac continued.
Trump last week apologized to the four men, along with a handful of former Republican Party congressmen and several faithful close to his 2016 campaign.
The pardons of former Blackwater contractors were met with strong criticism from General David Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the top U.S. officials in charge of U.S. policy in Iraq at the time of the 2007 assassinations. calling it “hugely harmful,” an action that tells the world that Americans abroad can commit the most heinous crimes with impunity “in a joint statement obtained by Reuters.
Now known as the Academy, the private security services company suffered severe criticism for the 2007 incident and, as a result, lost its license to operate in Iraq from the country’s government. The company also faced allegations of other human rights abuses as a result of WikiLeaks’ release of thousands of documents related to the Iraq war in 2010.