This is the Guardian.

This article contains strong language.

My name is Samirish Akhil and I'm a freelance journalist and the author of this piece

why we may never know if British troops committed war crimes in Iraq.

I actually got interested in this story when Theresa May became Prime Minister

and she used part of her first speech as Prime Minister to lambast left-wing activists

human rights lawyers. But we will never again in any future conflict let those activists left

wing human rights lawyers, her rang and her rast the bravest of the brave, the men and women

of our armed forces. And I was really curious what that was about because it was so specific

and it just seemed like quite a strange group for the Prime Minister to be going after.

So I looked into it and found that what she was referring to was this whole really complex story

about the Iraq Historic Allegations Team which was a government sort of semi tribunal process

that was set up to look at allegations of British soldiers committing wrongdoing in Iraq.

The Iraq Historic Allegations Team or I Hat was set up in 2010 and it closed down in 2018 in

disgrace. Looking at this four years later it really seems that the collapse of I Hat which is

what I detail in the piece really did mark the end of serious attempts to investigate alleged

crimes by British soldiers. And since then there haven't really been any attempts to address

those questions of accountability and the scale of abuses that might have happened in Iraq at all.

I think in fact the way in which it collapsed seems to have marked the end of serious attempts

to investigate not only wrongdoing in Iraq but actually more broadly by the British military.

There's been a sort of agreement in government that these types of legacy investigations are

wrong. Most recently we've seen the closure of an equivalent process looking into wrongdoing

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