Mark Lattimer

Executive Director @CeasefireCentre
War, justice, #CivilianRights

[Mark Lattimer @MGLattimer]

While the UK gov was arguing in Parliament that allegations of civilian death and injury in #Iraq and #Afghanistan were ‘vexatious’, all the time they were quietly settling compensation claims from civilians who had suffered appalling harm.
#reparations
https://t.co/Vac7HXIDTm

[Mark Lattimer @MGLattimer]

"The US has the power to stop Israel, but until it decides to exercise that power, the violations are likely to continue."
I spoke to @AJEnglish about the latest violations across the yellow line in #Gaza .
https://t.co/uexnhD0dzV

[Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights @CeasefireCentre]

Starting soon…

[Sahel Terror Watch @sterrorwatch]

Your framing of dual-purpose attacks as the underexplored mechanism is the most useful analytical move in this piece most debate stays stuck on dual-use objects entirely. Do you think the shift toward subjective intent tests in US/Israeli practice is a deliberate doctrinal strategy, or a post-hoc litigation defense that's hardened into doctrine?

[Mark Lattimer @MGLattimer]

@sterrorwatch @Articles_of_War @YearbookofIHL Good question -- both, I think. Helped by the reductive framing of IHL/LOAC as only being about war crimes, for which the influence of intl crim tribunals & human rights NGOs is as responsible as states and militaries.

[Mark Lattimer @MGLattimer]

Some say it is legal to attack energy infrastructure because it is a ‘dual-use object’. But such strikes may make commanders liable under the law on dual-purpose attacks.
My latest for @Articles_of_War highlighting research from @YearbookofIHL
https://t.co/pZ4ny0YXGj

[Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights @CeasefireCentre]

Join us (in-person in New York and online) for an event this Wednesday for Protection of Civilians Week.

As protection needs rise and institutional capacity contracts, civilian and community-led action to protect one another, monitor and document conflict, and respond to harm has never stopped. We're turning the lens toward these efforts and the people behind them, and exploring how the UN and Member States can support them.

Register: https://t.co/ANtaCcbMJl

#CivilianRights #CivilianProtection #NotATarget

[Mark Lattimer @MGLattimer]

@HannahOGrady @joelmgunter @MohammadiF87 @MurrayReports Congratulations Hannah, good luck!

[Mark Lattimer @MGLattimer]

Rajiv Menon KC had been accused of breaching judge's directions by telling jury that they had a right to acquit. "This unprecedented attempt to criminalise lawyers for doing their job and representing their clients fearlessly should never be repeated.”
https://t.co/8u2GTG1Qn5

[Richard Reeve @RJ_Reeve]

Kudos to @CeasefireCentre for their FOI campaign to get the MoD to admit to this systemic failure, as well as to @AOAV, @airwars, @iraqbodycount, @everycasualty and others doing the years of hard work on accountability that the MoD won’t do.

🙈🙉🙊

https://t.co/miUAREIp9O

[Mark Lattimer @MGLattimer]

“The UK’s inability to detect civilian harm calls into question its ability to comply with international humanitarian law" - @mae_thomps from @CeasefireCentre quoted here
https://t.co/Bzg7oxszfT

[Mark Lattimer @MGLattimer]

Full sources and statistics here:
https://t.co/Vac7HXIDTm

[Mark Lattimer @MGLattimer]

This refs al-Sweady where false claims were indeed made. But not the Baha Mousa inquiry, Chilcot Report or Iraq Fatality Investigations, or High Court judgments, or the £32m paid by the MoD in over 6,600 cases of accepted conflict harm. Why not reference them, @TomTugendhat ?

[Mark Lattimer @MGLattimer]

Congrats to all who worked on this, including @IrynaRMudra @glsurvivorsfund @CeasefireCentre

[Mark Lattimer @MGLattimer]

NEW: Compensation to harmed individuals now formally included in EUR 90 billion Ukraine support loan just agreed by EU.
Recall that the loan is only repayable on receipt of war #reparations from Russia, giving the EU a direct interest in Russia paying up.
https://t.co/OmCSPso3j1

[Mark Lattimer @MGLattimer]

Two-thirds of the 90b are for defence, but the macro-financial assistance can “be used by Ukraine to assist in the financing of compensation, as a form of reparation, to those individuals who have suffered damage from the illegal actions of Russia”.
Congrats to...

[Mark Lattimer @MGLattimer]

New statement by EU countries, UK, Canada & Japan welcomes ceasefire, incl. #Lebanon.
Meanwhile Israel has launched at least 100 airstrikes across Lebanon, killing scores of civilians, and Beirut hospitals appeal for blood donations.

[Mark Lattimer @MGLattimer]

Is the U.K. really going to allow British bases to be used for this? ⬇️

[Phil Stewart @phildstewart]

Trump: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”

[Mark Lattimer @MGLattimer]

Jews in Iran face considerable difficulties, but worship openly and have representation in Parliament.
For more background, see this illuminating article by Larry Cohler-Esses:
https://t.co/Xcte7ShXcL

[Mark Lattimer @MGLattimer]

It is not widely known that Iran has the second highest Jewish population in the Middle East (after Israel). The community numbers up to 15,000, mainly in Tehran, Isfahan and Shiraz.
Now Israeli-US strikes destroy a synagogue. 1/2
https://t.co/ExSOI99IHD

[Mark Lattimer @MGLattimer]

"The [Office of the Special Investigator] has been tasked with investigating literally dozens of murders” in Afghanistan. This is first person charged.
In earlier civil case, “a Federal judge found that Roberts-Smith had taken part in at least 4 murders..”
https://t.co/PoLCpdzhcO