Anti-war campaigners say, Tony Blair belongs in the dock at The Hague and not in the pantheon of great leaders. Blair, a divisive and controversial figure in Britain. Hundreds of British troops were killed in the same conflict. LONDON: An online petition to strip former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair of his recently awarded knighthood has reached 1 million signatures. More than 318,000 signatures were left under a petition urging the UK prime minister to ask the queen to rescind the order in less than a day after it was launched. The former UK prime minister should be held accountable for war crimes instead, it says. Two decades on: One million dead Iraqis, three million dispossessed and a region reeling from terrorism and instability. Hundreds of thousands of people have signed an online petition calling for the removal of knighthood from Tony Blair. The former prime minister was appointed Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter by the. The US claimed the regime of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and actively pressed for invading Iraq in late 2001. A petition calling for Tony Blair to be stripped of an honour has hit one million signatures. To Tony Blair, the biggest protest march in British history was fatuous: Sir Tony is appointed by the Queen a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, the oldest and most senior British Order of Chivalry. In mid-February 2003, just before the Iraq invasion, 10s of millions of demonstrators in hundreds of cities across the world, including London, marched against the impending US-led war in the Middle East. Half a million people have signed a petition to have former prime minister Tony Blair’s knighthood rescinded. The ex-Labour leader was appointed a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter - the highest possible honour - in the New Year's Honours List. It’s a designation routinely awarded to former Prime Ministers, but antiwar campaigners say they’re repulsed at seeing Blair receiving it. A petition calling for former prime minister Sir Tony Blair's knighthood to be rescinded has been signed by more than a quarter of a million people. More than 500,000 people have signed a petition on American petition website "" calling on the Queen to strip the man they call a war criminal of his new title. LONDON By custom, former British prime ministers are honored by Queen Elizabeth some years after leaving 10 Downing Avenue, so the elevation of Tony Blair to a knighthood on New Yr’s Day might have been a routine occasion. Furious Iraq veterans are now calling for the honors system to be overhauled. The backlash to the announcement has been immense and is only growing. The petitioners say the former premier should be tried and jailed for his role in the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003.Britain’s highest rank for chivalry awarded by Queen Elizabeth to Tony Blair, a man described by campaigners as one of the most repugnant political figures in the world - in power from 1997 to 2007. Islam Times - Some 700,000 people have signed a petition launched to strip former British Prime Minister Tony Blair of knighthood, an appointment personally made by the country’s Monarch just last week.
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