UN: Prosecute Rogue ContractorsBlackwater’s Nisour Square shootings and the more recent killing of two Iraqi women by contractors for the Australian-run Unity Resources Group has raised the ire of the United Nations. AFP:
The UN called Thursday for rogue security guards in Iraq to face prosecution as the Australian-run firm involved in the latest civilian shooting insisted its staff stuck by clear rules of engagement.
“We would like the US government and other governments that have contractors in Iraq… to apply rules of engagement on them and to prosecute them in their own countries,” UN spokesman Said Arikat told a press conference in Baghdad.
In the harshest criticism yet of private military companies in Iraq by any government or international body, UN human rights official Ivana Vaco said there needed to be an investigation into “whether crimes against humanity or war crimes have been committed.” She didn’t say who should spearhead such an inquiry.
