CAIRO: The Arab League called on Friday for those behind the "crimes against humanity" contained in leaked Iraq war documents published by the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks to be brought to justice.
"These documents and what they have unveiled … constitute a crime equivalent to crimes against humanity and violations against the Iraqi people," said Ahmed ben Helli, the Cairo-based organization’s deputy secretary general.
"We must pursue those who committed this crime," in cooperation with the Iraqi government, he said, quoted by Egypt’s official news agency MENA. Ben Helli called for more documents to be released.
WikiLeaks last week published nearly 400,000 secret US military documents which offer a grim snapshot of the conflict from 2004 to 2009, especially of the abuse of civilians by Iraqi security forces.
The heavily abridged logs appear to show that the US military turned a blind eye to evidence of torture and abuse of civilians by the Iraqi authorities.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said the documents reveal about 15,000 more civilian deaths in Iraq than were previously known.
