A GROUP of Scottish campaigners are to ask Police Scotland to arrest David Cameron for war crimes after MPs voted to back airstrikes in Syria.
Sean Clerkin, Piers Doughty Brown and James Scott from the Scottish Resistance will present themselves at a police station in Glasgow this morning and say the Government has breached the Kellogg-Briand Pact.
Lawyers consulted by the National suggest the case is unlikely to proceed and that Police Scotland may not be able to help.
Clerkin says the campaigners have taken legal advice and believe there is a case for Cameron to answer.
“We spent four-and-a-half hours going through this yesterday, Obviously we’re doing this to highlight the war,” Clerkin told the National.
The inveterate protester continued: “We believe a crime has been committed by David Cameron and we want it investigated by Police Scotland. The crime is that innocent civilians are going to be bombed and killed and essentially there’s going to be likely revenge action taken by ISIS on the UK mainland.
“This breaks international law. It breaks the Kellogg-Briand pact of 1928 which was a treaty signed by the major powers providing for the renunciation of war as an instrument of policy.”
Clerkin, unrepentant, said: “The bottom line is, we’re saying we want the police to carry out a full criminal investigation and to have Mr Cameron charged.”
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