Legality

There are multiple international laws, ratified into UK law which clearly state that it is a criminal offence in Britain to give money to a person or organisation if there is a reasonable cause to suspect that it may be used for criminal purposes, such as funding terrorism, wars of aggression or genocide.

Furthermore, the MOD’s own Manual of Military Law (1955) Part I, Chapter VI, Article 24 states: 

‘If a person, who is bound to obey a duly constituted superior, receives from the superior an order to do some act or make some omission which is manifestly illegal, he is under a legal duty to refuse to carry out the order and if he does carry it out he will be criminally responsible for what he does in doing so…’

Similarly, the MOD’s Manual of the Law of Armed Conflict states: 

‘Orders from a superior in this context include those of a government, a superior – military or civilian – or a national law or regulation. A serviceman is under a duty not to obey a manifestly unlawful order’

We therefore contend that to aid and abet actions which are in clear breach of international and domestic law, where aiding and abetting includes the funding of any wars of aggression which are manifestly illegal, would be a crime in which we are unwilling to be complicit and for which the perpetrator could be found criminally responsible.

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