There is so much to report today that this post will simply offer links. Three items of particular interest to readers of Global Military Justice Reform:
- The UK Independent Inquiry Relating to Afghanistan released a great deal of sanitized information on Wednesday. A video statement by the chairman, Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Sir Charles Haddon-Cave (at left), can be found here. Mark Landler's report in The New York Times is here. It is hard to imagine that the inquiry will not lead to criminal proceedings. The UK is far from alone in coming to grips with war crimes issues (see, e.g., the pending nomination of Pete Hegseth to be U.S. Secretary of Defense).
- A Korean Colonel of Marines was acquitted by a three-judge military court on charges of insubordination and defaming superiors. Choe Sang-Hun, also of The Times, reports here. It's complicated!
- The Times's Carol Rosenberg, doyenne-for-life of the Guantánamo press corps, has this useful explainer as the detention facility "heads into its 24th year with no end in sight," according to the headline. Among her questions: do we know how much Guantánamo costs?
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