With injustice and atrocities occurring daily, it is easy to overlook the importance of individual lives, especially ones as far-removed as Iraq over a decade ago. Like Ahmed Jabbar Kareem Ali, the Iraqi teenager who drowned after being forced into a river by British soldiers in 2003. But in 2016 Britain, political pressure to dismiss all individual claims quickly is now a high priority. The dominant message is that these are spurious claims promoted by unscrupulous human rights lawyers.

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