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Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has called for Western leaders including Australia’s former prime minister John Howard to be charged with war crimes over the war in Iraq.
In a speech at Imperial College in London, Mahathir called for an international tribunal to try US President George Bush plus former prime minister Tony Blair of Britain and Howard for their part in the conflict, said a spokesman for the Ramadhan Foundation, a Muslim group that organised the event.
Spokesman Mohammed Shafiq told AFP that Mahathir, who was in office from 1981 to 2003, wanted to see the trio tried “in absence for war crimes committed in Iraq”.