• EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Attacking a reservoir is illegal (war crime) as it is a piece of civilian infrastructure. All attacks on civilian infrastructure are crimes of war and can be punished under the Geneva Conventions.

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      Deliberately starving a civilian population by destroying or blocking access to food, water, and other survival necessities is a war crime. This includes interfering with humanitarian relief supplies. A 2019 amendment to the Rome Statute extended this prohibition to non-international armed conflicts, closing a significant gap in the law.

      Unless they can prove that the reservoir was being used as part of the military or military support operations,it’s off limits.

      • mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        6 hours ago

        Since the usa was in negociations and even said that it was a retaliation against the shooting for the helicopter. The principle of necessity and proportionality is not there.

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      12 hours ago

      I understand that. I’m making a statement that there were no mentions of war crimes. Let’s do another round?

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        11 hours ago

        They bombed a reservoir.

        That is a war crime.

        The article doesn’t need to explicitly say “they gone and done some war crimes” for that to be the case.

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          10 hours ago

          Almost certain that the person you’re replying to is saying that the article should say that it’s a war crime, not that it isn’t one because the article doesn’t say so.

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            10 hours ago

            This exactly. For the mouth-breathers out there who don’t understand why it’s a bad idea to bomb reservoirs, it’s important to state clearly this is a war crime.

            Of course, the fucking US Government has done countless war crimes and not been prosecuted. So… yeah.