Listed countries that last year bought British arms and military equipment include: ■ Saudi Arabia, which has been accused of perpetrating war crimes in Yemen.
Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic long oppressed the Kosovo Albanians, as well as perpetrating war and ethnic cleansing right across former Yugoslavia.
Turkey has accused Russia of acting "like a terrorist organisation" and perpetrating war crimes in its support of Bashar al-Assad as hopes for a ceasefire fade.
He said his panel believed rebel groups had perpetrated war crimes but not crimes against humanity "because there is not a clear chain of command".
And, to be sure, the I.R.A. is not alone in standing accused of atrocities during the Troubles: loyalist paramilitary groups and British government forces also perpetrated war crimes for which they have not been brought to account.
According to a legal submission: "The investigative and prosecutorial functions in the United States are currently directly controlled by the ones involved in the conspiracy to perpetrate war crimes and named in this complaint, which politically blocks possible investigations and criminal prosecutions".
Does Feldman believe that even if Yoo perpetrated war crimes by helping to establish a policy that led to the torture of detainees, it would be unhelpful, for reasons that Feldman fails to articulate, to oust him from his academic post?
Meron, in an interview with Tanjug, Serbia's official news agency, denied that it was "now virtually impossible to obtain convictions against the commanders and generals whose units perpetrated war crimes unless evidence shows that they issued direct orders to the units to do so".
"It is the Palestinian Authority - which is in a unity government with Hamas, an avowed terrorist organisation that, like ISIS [Islamic State], perpetrates war crimes - that needs to be concerned about the International Criminal Court in the Hague," he said.
At least four human rights groups are believed to be compiling suits alleging that Israelis perpetrated war crimes in planning or carrying out the three-week operation Cast Lead.
The commission's latest report (PDF), which will be debated at the next Human Rights Council session on Sept. 17, concluded that the Syrian government, as a matter of state policy, has perpetrated war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, extrajudicial killings and torture, gross violations of human rights and sexual violence.
