Why do war crimes need to be reported to the police?
In a society based on the rule of law, if a person discovers or witnesses a crime taking place they have a duty to report it and any offenders to the police. This applies to all crimes and all offenders regardless of their role or position in society. So if you see a house being burgled, a child being assaulted, a handbag being stolen or you overhear a group of people planning a crime, it is your duty to report what you have seen and heard to the police. Not only do we all have a duty to our fellow human beings to ensure that society’s rules, regulations and laws are obeyed, upheld and enforced, but we all have a moral duty to ensure that such heinous crimes as the waging of war and the murders of innocent men, women and children are prevented. One way of preventing war and the deaths and injuries caused by war is to ensure that those responsible are arrested and held to account in court for their crimes. Only when leaders such as Bush and Cheney or Blair and Brown are tried, convicted
