Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 12hA ceasefire in name only. I spoke to Al Jazeera on the anniversary of the #Gaza ceasefire agreement and just 3 days after the anniversary of the 7 Oct attacks. mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/tYhucl... 012
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026How genocide is arranged: Ratko Mladic 12-7-95: “I want absolute cooperation from the civilian population... There is no need for your people to get killed, your husband, your brothers or your neighbours. …you can either survive or disappear.” (Video at 4.30) But Mladic had already decided... 1/2 101
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026"The US has the power to stop Israel, but until it decides to exercise that power, the violations are likely to continue." I spoke to @aljazeera.com about the latest violations across the yellow line in #Gaza . mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/sYbXhU... 010
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 23/04/2026NB: Two-thirds of the 90b are for defence, but the macro-financial assistance can “be used by Ukraine to assist in the financing of compensation, as a form of reparation, to those individuals who have suffered damage from the illegal actions of Russia, including through the [CoE] Claims Commission”. 110
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026New statement by EU countries, UK, Canada & Japan welcomes ceasefire, incl. #Lebanon. Meanwhile Israel has launched at least 100 airstrikes across Lebanon, killing scores of civilians, and Beirut hospitals appeal for blood donations. 011
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Devastated to learn that the great Yanar Mohammed, founder of the Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq, was assassinated today by 'unknown' gunmen in Baghdad. Here in her own words: 04623
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 01/03/2026U.K., France, Germany statement just out. The “we are not joining these strikes” line is crumbling fast… 1104
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Large pro-Kurdish demo outside U.K. Parliament just now. There’s a lot of concern that what happened in Suwayda is now unfolding in NE Syria. 051
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Here with UN SR Francesca Albanese at @odi.global “Absolutely Israel should pay reparations for the occupation — and those other countries who are complicit by sending arms.” 152
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 10/12/2025The closure of the Iraq Fatality Investigations marks the end of 22 years of on/off investigations into British conduct in Iraq. Its final paragraph, declining again to make any recommendations, sums up the message from all those years: 6/7 100
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 10/12/2025According to soldiers' testimony, Mr Nama was being questioned in an area known as “the cage”, when he asked for a glass of water and then suddenly "doubled over". 3/7 100
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 10/12/2025This is the letter received by an Iraqi family in Basra after their father was arrested. “British Forces have treated him in a good way according to the British Rules”, writes the commanding officer reassuringly. In fact, as the officer knew very well, their father was already dead. SHORT 🧵 111
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Court says Israel blocked aid to Gaza for prolonged period & underlines Israel’s duty re. prohibition of starvation of civilian population as method of war. Wording reflects the GA's question, but will the Court adopt this saying-but-not-quite-saying approach in the separate genocide case? 2/3 153
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Crushing opinion on Israel’s obligations just dropped from Intl Court of Justice. In findings that rely heavily on IHL, ICJ says that Israel’s duty under GCIV Art59 to facilitate relief schemes if the local population is inadequately supplied is *unconditional*, incl. relief provided by UNRWA. 1/3 1149
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 24/09/2025If you’re at the UN Human Rights Council this Friday, join us to discuss human rights and justice in #Syria #HRC60 With thanks to Syrians for Truth and Justice, IMPAC, Cairo Institute et al. @ceasefirecentre.bsky.social 032
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 22/07/2025On another unspeakably grim day for Palestinians in Gaza, I talked to @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social about starvation as a war crime. mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/qDghRd... 033
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 08/07/2025“The UK must approach Ukraine reparations not as a distant post-conflict project, but as a current and urgent imperative.” @maethompson.bsky.social at packed @ceasefirecentre.bsky.social event in Parliament last night. Thx to @alexsobel.co.uk for his leadership on Ukraine #reparations 083
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Latest figs from HRANA on Iran casualties from Israeli attacks 🔽 (see www.en-hrana.org ) Fatalities in Israel currently = 24. 010
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 27/05/2025"Urgent and decisive action is required to avert the destruction of the Palestinian population of Gaza." UK judges' and lawyers' letter to PM Keir Starmer. Full legal memorandum here: lawyersletter.uk/wp-content/u... 223
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Thanks Amir. Belligerent reprisals against civilians have been outlawed for at least half a century 🔽. Even under the old law of reprisal, the suspect in the shooting is not a belligerent and would have no such right. 100
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 15/05/2025In late April, the ICJ considered Israel’s earlier submission that it “goes to great lengths to continue to allow and facilitate the provision of necessary humanitarian assistance”. On 2 March Netanyahu had announced that “all entry of goods and supplies to the Gaza Strip will cease”. Gaza starves. 100
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025As the significance of death and victory 80 years ago is contested, a sombre wall nearby records the fallen from today’s fight against Russian aggression. 5/6 110
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025And here in Kyiv a public exhibition outside St Michael’s draws explicit parallels between the Warsaw Uprising and the Ukrainian defenders at the siege of Mariupol. 4/6 110
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025The legacy of WW2 is at issue this week as Putin prepares for Russia’s WW2 Victory Day parade. Ukrainian historians point to the 6 million Ukrainian troops in the Soviet Red Army that helped liberate these lands and their terrible camps from German occupation. 3/6 100
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025The site of the death camp at Belzec is situated just to the north. An hour further back along the track from Krakow lies Auschwitz-Birkenau. And in Kyiv there extends the Babi Yar ravine where nearly 100,000 Ukrainian Jews, Slavs & Roma were shot by the German SS. 100
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025With Ukraine airspace closed, visitors to Kyiv typically fly in to Krakow and take the sleeper train across the border from Przemysl. On this particular week, it is a poignant journey. For the 11-hour trip passes through the centre of the Nazi killing fields. #VEDay #VE80 Short🧵 220
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 01/05/2025"The UK believes that UNRWA is an impartial humanitarian organisation" under the terms of Geneva Convention IV. Strong defence right now of humanitarian obligations under GCIV by UK at the #ICJ in the ongoing hearings on Israel's obligations. 010
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Financing: EU will contribute to operating budget of the Claims Commission together with other members, but this will be treated as ‘advances on payments owed by’, and recoverable from, the Russian Federation. This does not extend to the actual compensation fund for paying reparations. 4/5 121
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Modalities: Formal negotiations to start March 2025. Unclear whether it will be by Council of Europe convention, standalone treaty or hybrid. (Also for discussion is the relationship with Ukraine, which has already taken steps to provide social protection to victims.) 3/5 @coe.int 131
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 05/02/2025The Claims Commission is to compensate for Russia’s war of aggression but also any other ‘internationally wrongful acts’ in or against Ukraine, thereby including IHL violations, & specifically including all damage, injury & loss to all natural and legal persons. 2/5 121
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Ukraine: Attention has focused on the Special Tribunal, but the EU has now also thrown its weight behind creation of a Claims Commission for reparations. Von der Leyen: “There can also be no justice without compensation. Russia must be held accountable for its aggression – and it must pay.” 🧵 177
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Make no mistake, phase 1 is a lifeline (not least for hostages, who otherwise seemed doomed). But will we ever get to phase 2? Key indicators will be not just releases but also opening of Rafah crossing & rehab. of hospitals in north Gaza, without which meaningful IDP return is impossible. 6/7 100
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Experienced senior SBS officers believed that the abuses committed by the SAS on arrival in Afghanistan in 2009 were directly linked to recent SAS operational methods in Iraq, “driven by kill counts”. Should the Inquiry now consider evidence on SAS operations in Iraq? /ENDS 000
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 08/01/2025UKSF were described as training and mentoring local Afghan forces. But instead of UK forces instilling the need to adhere to Geneva Conventions, here it was the Afghan forces who protested at egregious violations allegedly committed by UK forces: 100
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 08/01/2025As @ceasefirecentre.bsky.social previously revealed, SF were the only NATO units assigned NCVs in Op Resolute Support & NATO’s own civilian casualty mitigation team was denied authority to investigate SF killings before 2016. Did failure to act on concerns in 2011 enable years of further abuses? 100
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 30/12/20244. Defence spending hit a record $2.44 trillion last year. The rest of the world can’t understand Americans' domestic logic that more guns make you safer. But in global relations, that is the logic we are all signed up to, with producers making ever more weapons and selling them to ever more states. 110
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 30/12/20243. The UN Charter prohibition on the use of force is crumbling. States around the world are choosing to forget that war was outlawed in 1945 and are electing to use force as a regular instrument of foreign policy again, using illegal justifications incl. reprisal, deterrence, even land grabs. 100
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 30/12/2024What are 5 major trends in armed conflict and how will they affect civilian protection in 2025? #IHL #PoC Short 🧵 152
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 20/12/2024DoD 2023 annual report on civilian casualties in US military operations is now out. Just one civilian death in the year reported (+1 child injured), adult male killed in an airstrike in Qurqanya, Syria on 3 May, in a case of misidentification. #CIVCAS Full report: policy.defense.gov/Portals/11/D... 000
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Either way, the days of Assad regime impunity are over. 110
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 11/12/2024The Intl Criminal Court has no territorial jurisdiction over Syria. Unless the new Syrian gov accedes to the ICC statute and/or makes an art 12(3) declaration 🔽 (unlikely) or, conceivably, a transboundary crime involving Jordan can be prosecuted, the ICC will continue to have no role 100
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Syria has just been taken over by a group you proscribe as a terrorist organisation. So why are you halting asylum applications? 020
