The UN’s senior human rights officer in Iraq, Ivana Vuco, announced yesterday “that private security contractors were still subject to international humanitarian law and that meant there were specific consequences for any breach.” She called for “investigations as to whether or not crimes against humanity [or] war crimes” have been committed by private military contractors, like Blackwater USA, have been committed.

UPDATE: Nico Pitney, National Editor for Huffington Post, reports that Center for Constitutional Rights in New York has initiated a federal suit against Blackwater USA for firing on Iraqi civilians in Iraq “on behalf of an injured survivor and the families of three killed.” Previously the Center for Constitutional Rights has successfully argued that detainees at Guantanamo Bay should have access to federal courts and initiated the first law suites against the Bush administration’s warentless wiretapping program.

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