division_name: Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) Bill
motion: <p class="indent" pid="c985.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;It is clearly wrong to say that the Bill would forbid prosecution of serious allegations of torture supported by evidence.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c986.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We shouldn&#8217;t be treating our people as if they have special protection from prosecution&#8230;What we need to do is to investigate properly so that the ones who deserve to be prosecuted, are&#8221;?</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c986.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;entitled to a fair and public hearing within a reasonable time by an independent and impartial tribunal established by law.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c987.4/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Nothing in the Bill limits the investigation of offences&#8212;even outside the period of five years&#8230;The Bill impliedly contemplates the possibility of multiple investigations.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c992.3/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;should face no disadvantage compared to other citizens in the provision of public and commercial services.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c993.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;have been hanging over these soldiers for the past 10 years&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c994.6/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;This Bill aims to provide greater certainty for Service personnel and veterans in relation to vexatious claims and prosecution of historical events, that occurred in the uniquely complex environment of armed conflict overseas.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c994.6/12" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;to ensure also the equivalent protections of our veterans who served in Northern Ireland.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c997.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Nothing in this Bill will stop those guilty of committing serious criminal acts from being prosecuted.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c997.3/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The Bill creates&#8230;a limitation period for a select group of persons in specific circumstances, i.e. armed forces personnel alleged to have committed offences overseas.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1001.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;one of the biggest problems&#8230;was the military&#8217;s inability to investigate itself properly and the standard of those investigations&#8230;If those investigations were done properly and self-regulation had occurred, we probably wouldn&#8217;t be here today&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1003.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;undermines international humanitarian law while shielding the government&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1003.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;undermining the UK&#8217;s position as a champion of the rule of law&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1003.0/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;There can be no exceptions to our laws, and no attempts to bend them. Those who break them should be judged in court.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1003.0/12" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;These proposals appear to have been dreamt up by those who have seen too little of the world to understand why the rules of war matter. If we start down the slippery slope of arguing that rules apply to others, but not to ourselves, it is we who will suffer in the end.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1004.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a fair and public hearing within a reasonable time&#8221;?</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1008.5/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;if it is an excluded&#8230; by virtue of Part 1 of Schedule 1.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1009.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the military&#8217;s inability to investigate itself properly and the standard of those investigations. If those investigations were done properly and self-regulation had occurred, we probably wouldn&#8217;t be here today.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1010.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;has gone far beyond the original understanding of the European Convention on Human Rights, and&#8230; its rulings have stretched the temporal and territorial scope of the Human Rights Act beyond Parliament&#8217;s original intentions&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1013.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The bill as drafted is not the answer.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1015.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;This increases the likelihood of UK service personnel appearing before the ICC in the future.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1015.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I will be honest that I cannot, off the top of my head, think why individuals would be diagnosed and choose not to do anything about it&#8230; I have not come across that in all my experience in the field, but I am happy to learn. If that is the case, I am happy to change the Bill&#8221;.&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2020-07-16">16 July</phrase> 2020; Vol. 678, c. 1675.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1016.4/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;deliberate lies, reckless speculation and ingrained hostility&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1024.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The Bill risks creating impunity for serious offences including torture, and thus will result in the UK being in breach of its international treaty obligations&#8230; The Bill makes the mistake of assuming that all victims are fake, and that British soldiers are always in the right. That is not borne out by history.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1038.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;1. Read the statute, 2. Read the statute, 3. Read the statute&#8221;.</p>