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Phil Miller is a staff reporter for Declassified UK, an investigative journalism organisation focusing on British foreign, military and intelligence policies.
Last month, Donald Trump pardoned war criminals convicted of killing 14 Iraqi civilians. It’s a reminder that violence is not the exception for politics in the West, but the norm – and is usually directed at the world’s poorest people.
For decades, former British soldiers with friends in high places ran a mercenary enterprise from Sri Lanka to Nicaragua – leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake.