America’s attempt to hide the war crimes of its soldiers in Afghanistan.
WikiLeaks reported that the United States has tried to acquit people who committed war crimes in Afghanistan and some other countries from trial by signing an agreement granting immunity to its soldiers from various countries.
WikiLeaks has provided a report on the US effort to grant immunity to its soldiers from various countries to escape their war crimes.
According to this media, “John Bolton” stated in 2003 that America will not subject its actions to the limitations of the International Criminal Court. This is despite the fact that after a decade of these statements, America does not issue permission to try its soldiers by the Hague Court.
In its report, WikiLeaks discussed George Bush’s administration’s attempt to grant immunity to American soldiers and avoid trial by the Hague Tribunal and said that Washington has always tried to exclude soldiers who committed war crimes from trial by various means.
According to this report, by signing the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), the US government has forced weak countries to grant immunity to this country’s soldiers, and based on this agreement, American forces will be tried only on American soil and according to the laws of this country.
Status of Forces or SOFA is an agreement signed between a host country and foreign forces to grant them immunity.
In the continuation of its report, WikiLeaks wrote: When the Iraqi government refused to accept this agreement with the United States in 2011, Washington withdrew its soldiers from this country, and the immunity of foreign soldiers from being tried in Afghanistan is also one of the disputes with The government of Hamid Karzai wanted the soldiers to stay in this country after 2014.
According to this media, exemption from local laws is usually as impunity and “Glenn Greenvaldas” American journalist has documented how the SOFA agreement exempted many people with power and wealth who committed human rights crimes from prosecution. has forgiven
WikiLeaks added that although after the end of George Bush’s term, the new US President Barack Obama agreed to release the interrogation documents of this country, but he immediately said that the people responsible for these tortures will not be prosecuted.
According to this media, however, following the publication of CIA torture documents in 2014 and the request to prosecute the perpetrators of this act, Obama ordered the revival of the SOFA agreement and declared that the publication of this report should not reopen old disputes.
This media also added that the criminal court could have used another way to pursue war crimes, and that is why the American negotiators at that time tried to slow down the trial arm of this court.
According to this report, the founding countries of this court insisted that the court have the ability to prosecute people everywhere, but pressure from the United States made the court only able to prosecute people for war crimes in a specific state or only in one territory.
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