Boro Boy wrote: ↑Sat Feb 23 2019 11:41pm
Read the thread - I have suggested a potential legal route via an international court. However there is guilt by association to be considered...
The idea of an international tribunal was suggested as soon as the number of IS captives started to rise, so it is not original. Further, this woulld
NOT be to "save" the UK and other states from facing up to their responsibilities, but to ensure some equality of treatment across the various legal systems. However, as previously stated, such an international court would only try cases where war crimes had been committed, not rank and file membership of a proscried organization - and certainly not non-combatants - so there is no relevance to this case.
Secondly, "guilt by association" is meaningless under law - a person must be charged with a recognised crime and tried. Otherwise you become a vigilante - like Liam Neeson, out to punish someone because of what someone else did....
Thirdly, the issue at hand here is that the refugee camp where Shamima Begum is held is controlled by Kurdish forces, who are
NOT representatives of any state recognised by the international community or bound by international law and who are likely to come under attack both from the Assad regime and the Turks. Abandoning these people may result in their deaths or see them released to continue their activities elsewhere. This is not justice, it is merely a denial of responsibility.