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If Putin is to be tried as a war criminal, why not Gordon Brown?
Allowing those who are brazen and unabashed breakers of international law and killers of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans to lead the condemnation chorus on Russia's violations is British establishment hypocrisy distilled, writes IAN SINCLAIR
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LAST MONTH former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was among 140 academics, lawyers and politicians who signed a petition calling for a Nuremberg-style trial for Russian President Vladimir Putin for the invasion of Ukraine.
Appearing on the BBC Today Programme Brown said: “We believe that Putin should not be able to act with impunity, that a warning should be sent out that he will face the full force of international law, that his colleagues who are complicit in this will do so as well.”
He continued, “The foundational crime… is the crime of aggression, the initial crime of invading the country… the rule of law has been replaced by threats and by the use of force and that has to be punished.”
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