Campaigners in Belfast have criticised police for not releasing a file from the Troubles after similar documents were discovered in Foreign Office archives.
Sri Lanka
Foreign Office helped notorious mercenary avoid court case
Government lawyers managed to stop a former SAS soldier linked to atrocities in Sri Lanka from being questioned in court.
‘Mystery’ at Foreign Office over file hidden from media
Government cannot explain why it withheld a Downing Street document for up to six years after it was cleared for release.
British mercenary’s £4m fortune revealed
Greenwashing genocide? The UK welcomes Sri Lanka’s notorious president
Why I took the police to court over a 48-year-old secret document
Declassified UK’s chief reporter enters the Kafkaesque world of official secrecy as he tries to uncover the British state’s involvement in a notorious terrorist bombing for which no one has been held to account.
Revealed: British mercenaries linked to brutal crackdown on left-wing activists in Sri Lanka
A British mercenary kept working at Sri Lanka’s military headquarters in the late 1980s during a bloody crackdown on left-wing activists from the country’s Sinhalese majority, new evidence obtained by Declassified UK reveals.
Keenie Meenie – Britain’s private army
Keenie Meenie Services – the most powerful mercenary company you’ve never heard of – was involved in war crimes in Sri Lanka for which its shadowy directors have never been held accountable.
British security firm Saladin tries to distance itself from police war crimes investigation
One of Britain’s oldest private security companies has admitted to UN experts that it shared an office building in west London with a group of mercenaries being investigated for alleged war crimes – but denies involvement.
Exclusive: Met Police open war crimes investigation into British mercenaries
Police in London have opened an investigation into war crimes allegedly committed by British mercenaries in Sri Lanka during the 1980s.