You don't even have to afford them a military tribunal, really. The Geneva Convention doesn't actually provide unlawful combatants with any rights. It simply states what it means to be a combatant, and anything that violates it's strict standard of a combatant is considered an unlawful combatant.Montegriffo wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 8:29 amWhere there is evidence to convict there will be convictions.
Where there is not there is the presumption of innocence.
Unless you suspend habeas corpus this is how is has to be.
The alternative is internment without trial which was tried in Northern Ireland. The policy was widely condemned around the world and had a counter productive effect by increasing recruitment to the IRA and increasing terror attacks.
I don't think another Conservative government will make that same mistake again.
The fact that these women voluntarily traveled to Syria and Iraq to join an enemy against the United Kingdom is sufficient to just execute them on the spot. I still think we should afford them what the Geneva Convention calls a "competent military tribunal", which is fairly straight forward:
>Did you willingly travel to the region from the safety of the UK to join the Islamic State and wage war in violation of international and UK law, including war against the United Kingdom?
>>Yes.
>Guilty. Please follow the three marines to the next point in processing. Thank you.