Mark Lattimer
Exec Director, Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights
War, justice, #civilianrights
- Deputy Prosecutors stepping up are Mame Mandiaye Niang from Senegal and Nazhat Shameem Khan from Fiji. apnews.com/article/un-i...
- To defend its aid block, Israel relies on 3 incoherent arguments: 1 There is no hunger in Gaza 2 There needs to be hunger in Gaza to pressure Hamas 3 Gazans go hungry because Hamas is stealing food. 1 is untrue; 2 is unlawful; 3 partially true but ignores main cause www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg-N...
- Important article by @mollyquell.bsky.social But see also court victory by Human Rights First yesterday in the case of one US staffer: humanrightsfirst.org/library/vict...
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- ‘Killing of detainees "became routine", the veteran said. "They'd search someone, handcuff them, then shoot them".’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Meanwhile, the last remaining medical services in Gaza are being eliminated
- BBC accused of political censorship over delayed Gaza documentary aoav.org.uk/2025/bbc-acc...
- With Ukraine airspace closed, visitors to Kyiv typically fly in to Krakow and take the sleeper train across the border from Przemysl. On this particular week, it is a poignant journey. For the 11-hour trip passes through the centre of the Nazi killing fields. #VEDay #VE80 Short🧵
- Reposted by Mark LattimerCompelling evidence from Ukrainian survivors of Russian detention and torture at our Civil Society-Government Roundtable in Kyiv. #Reparations #UkraineWar
- "The UK believes that UNRWA is an impartial humanitarian organisation" under the terms of Geneva Convention IV. Strong defence right now of humanitarian obligations under GCIV by UK at the #ICJ in the ongoing hearings on Israel's obligations.
- With the UK last night conducting an air strike south of Sana'a, the Labour gov joins the US war in Yemen for the first time. The so-called convention to consult Parliament on military action now seems dead in the water. www.gov.uk/government/n...
- US military lawyers have been slow to criticise Israel because they are preparing to adopt a similar approach. “What I can say is that the systems and processes that the I.D.F. implemented are very similar to what we would implement in a similar battle space.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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- UK government has just removed sanctions on a further raft of Syrian entities, incl. interior & defence ministries, intelligence & security agencies and state-linked newspapers and TV. Notice here: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6809ea...
- Great piece by my colleague @maethompson.bsky.social and the magisterial Elizabeth Stubbins Bates
- 🔽 Just on compensation, about ten times as much in fact
- “Not only are we not standing robustly for international law, but in some cases we are supporting its debasement. “…in which the rights of civilians are discarded again and again.”
- "The plaintiffs allege that Facebook's recommendation systems amplified violent posts in Ethiopia during the Tigray war." Meta should create "a restitution fund for victims of hate & violence and alter Facebook's algorithm to stop promoting hate speech." www.reuters.com/technology/m...
- Getting redress for civilian harm - have a listen
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- So much for deterrence www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/...
- “To ‘name and shame’ perpetrators of human rights abuses … may have now outlived its usefulness.” Interesting. Or are some American commentators — for understandable reasons — abandoning human rights discourse just at the point when it is being championed by the global South?
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- “If you can’t admit when you’re wrong, you’re going to kill somebody.” 53 people WERE killed. It’s as if Yemenis didn’t exist.
- "...factors suggest that universal jurisdiction trials will be more, not less, prominent after the fall of Assad"
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- In fact, the Foreign Secretary's statement to Parliament likely echoed the view of Foreign Office lawyers, whatever the Downing St spox now says.
- As Ukraine's future is debated, what place for #reparations? Come join us on Thursday in Geneva at UN #HRC58
- Interesting discussion 👇🏼 Aurel is right but @davidallengreen.bsky.social offers an important UK perspective. Nearly all the serious allegations & proven abuses by British forces in Iraq & Afghanistan concerned detainees, ie. civilians & ors within the power of the UK. Yet government…
- “Parlatore made clear to the defense secretary’s office that he was not pushing for the US to not abide by the Geneva conventions and the uniform code of military justice even if the US’s enemies ignored them. But he intends to change how they are interpreted” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- A step for justice in which Agnes' work while Special Rapporteur on summary executions played no small part. 👏
- Now they’re coming for the Geneva Conventions #IHL
- The US will no longer worry about civilians getting in the way of their bombs: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
- An Israeli insurance company, PassportCard "has allocated $1 million to cover the cost of repatriating Israelis to avoid possible prosecution for alleged crimes during the war in Gaza", in 12 countries... www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
- A human dimension “would also entail securing reparations for victims using seized Russian assets to fund reconstruction, and to support both physical and psychological recovery, including compensation for the dead.” www.ft.com/content/f4a1...
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- "If this draft were accepted, Trump’s demands would amount to a higher share of Ukrainian GDP than reparations imposed on Germany at the Versailles Treaty... At the same time, he seems willing to let Russia of the hook entirely." www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
- Meanwhile, Kagame’s grab of Congo’s rare earths continues unchecked. The last time a Rwandan-backed militia seized Bukavu, the UN secured a withdrawal. Who will stop Kagame now? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Trump just announced that Ukraine peace talks with Russia will start immediately. But earlier today his SecDef already conceded Ukraine’s two main positions… Any professional mediator will tell you that something is seriously wrong
- Fmr U.K. Foreign Office diplomat and lead advisor on arms sales policy: ‘Reports were repeatedly returned to me with instructions to “rebalance” the findings – to downplay evidence of civilian harm‘. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
