By dw.com
In an interview published Saturday by the British newspaper “The Independent,” former police detective Mark Warwick who is leading the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (Ihat) said:
“There are serious allegations that we are investigating across the whole range of probe investigations, which incorporates homicide, where I feel there is significant evidence to be obtained to put a strong case before the Service Prosecuting Authority (SPA) to prosecute and charge.”
The SPA considers criminal cases within the armed services.
Ihat was set up by the Ministry of Defense in 2010 and is independent of the military for its investigations. It is currently dealing with more than 1,500 possible victims, according to its latest quarterly update. Some 280 of those victims are alleged to have been unlawfully killed.
“There are lots of significant cases that we are investigating and at the appropriate time it will be a matter for us to discuss with the SPA whether they meet the war crimes threshold,” Warwick added in the interview.
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