Secrecy around UK military civilian harm ‘risks undermining public confidence’

Pilots at RAF Marham in Norfolk. Airwars said the tribunal ruling showed the need for greater transparency about civilian harm by the military. Photograph: Philip Coburn/AFP/Getty Images

The British government’s secrecy around how it tracks civilian deaths in UK military campaigns risks undermining public confidence in the process, a tribunal has found.

The UK has no published guidelines for how it reviews and assesses allegations that civilians have been killed or injured in an attack, unlike its closest ally, the US.