Media articles on war criminals in UK

The UK media – especially print and broadcast – have been sporadically active in tracking and exposing suspected war criminals resident in the UK, pressing the government into law changes – notably 1991 and 2009 – to enable legal action against them, and reporting FOI findings on the issue. However none have shown a consistent line over the years in campaigning for police and judiciary to be fully resourced, or for the UK to show leadership in tackling the growing problem of war criminals setting up new lives in the west/UK. These articles give some sense of the limited interest in the subject over the past two decades.

Daily Mail: Your local cabbie – the Rwandan ‘war criminal linked to a million murders’ who can’t be deported due to human rights laws 3 November 2012The Guardian: Stop giving haven to genocide suspects 8 Aug 2006

BBC: The ones that got away 6 Jan 2000

Amnesty International: UK must not become a safe haven for genocide suspects 4 August 2006

New Internationalist: Murderers, you are welcome! 1 May 2010

The Independent: Britain a safe haven for war criminals 6 April 2010

BBC: suspected foreign war criminals ‘able to stay in UK’ 13 Feb 2014

Daily Express: UK Britain in danger of becoming ‘a safe haven’ for war criminals 12 Sept 2016

McGill Centre for Human Rights: Impunity for genocide perpetrators 2 May 2019

Great Lakes Eye: Trial of Rwandan genocidaire and lessons learnt 10 Dec 2021