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South African lawyers gearing up to file war-crime complicity case against UK, US
Far from bowing to US/Israel pressure, Van Rensburg team finalises complicity case
A team of forty-seven South African lawyers is finalising its lawsuit against the UK and US for their complicity in Israel’s genocide and other war crimes against Palestinians. The group, which is led by Wikus van Rensburg, is the same team that filed South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), successfully obtaining the finding of ‘plausible genocide’ that effectively put Israel on trial before the court for the crime.
The lawyers plan to use civilian courts to prosecute those who aid and abet Israel in its crimes through civilian courts, in cooperation with UK and US lawyers.
Rensburg told Turkish media outlet Anadolu Ajansi that it was time for the UK and US to be held to account for their complicity:
The United States must now be held accountable for the crimes it committed. No one says stop, enough is enough.
What happened in Iraq is an example of this; no one held the US accountable for the crimes it committed in the Middle Eastern country as the issue was not given the necessary importance.
The US is busy spending more money and more resources to (allow Israel) commit the crime. If the ICJ trial against Israel is concluded in favour of South Africa, the US may face sanctions even if it does not accept the verdict. The ICJ ruling will also strengthen a case against the Joe Biden administration.
The US must now be held responsible for the crimes it has committed. It must accept its responsibilities. You could not avoid responsibility. The US must now be held accountable for the crimes it committed.
Israel has been lobbying its US allies to use sanctions and diplomatic pressure try to pressure South Africa and the UN’s courts to drop the case, as well as to coerce the International Criminal Court (ICC) not to issue arrest warrants for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his defence minister Yoav Gallant. Far from bowing to the pressure, South Africa has responded by taking its legal preparations for the complicity cases forward.
The US and UK have provided direct military assistance to and political cover for Israel during its genocide, in which it has already killed as many as 200,000 Palestinians, while the Starmer regime in the UK is targeting journalists and activists who draw attention to and oppose Israel’s war crimes.