"UK soldiers have opened fire and killed civilians...

"UK soldiers have opened fire and killed civilians in southern Iraq in circumstances where there was apparently no imminent threat of death or serious injury to themselves or others," Amnesty International said in a report.
"In many cases where civilians have been killed by UK forces the British army has not even opened an investigation.
"Where investigations have been opened, the (British) Royal Military Police, which is responsible for conducting the investigations, has been highly secretive. It has provided (the victims') families with little or no information about the progress or conclusions of investigations."
The Amnesty report, which was likely to add to the furore over the abuse and torture of Iraqi prisoners by the British and US forces occupying Iraq, said British soldiers were implicated in the killings of 37 Iraqi civilians since combat operations were officially declared over on May 1, 2003.