Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts against persons or property protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention:
• Wilful killing
• Torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments;
• Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health;
• Extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly;
• Compelling a prisoner of war or other protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile Power;
• Wilfully depriving a prisoner of war or other protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial;
• Unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement;
• Taking of hostages
you’re making my job at a retail clothing outlet much more exciting than it actually was.
I would encourage you to read through it, I think, so that the populace doesn’t think you’re completely ok with the idea of gassing, torturing, and raping civilians just because the country in question is at war.
Also because it only applies to countries who are actively at civil or international war, between parties who already know they are at war, against a victim given protected status, by a perpetrator who does not fall under unlawful combatant (ex., mercenaries, children, members of neutral nations who have taken part in war, collateral damage).
Child soldiers cannot be war criminals, but if a child is playing out by the old terrorist training camp, their accidental death in the drone strike isn’t a crime. Targeting them for kicks or for a purpose not provably militarily necessary would be.
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you’re making my job at a retail clothing outlet much more exciting than it actually was.
I would encourage you to read through it, I think, so that the populace doesn’t think you’re completely ok with the idea of gassing, torturing, and raping civilians just because the country in question is at war.
Also because it only applies to countries who are actively at civil or international war, between parties who already know they are at war, against a victim given protected status, by a perpetrator who does not fall under unlawful combatant (ex., mercenaries, children, members of neutral nations who have taken part in war, collateral damage).
Child soldiers cannot be war criminals, but if a child is playing out by the old terrorist training camp, their accidental death in the drone strike isn’t a crime. Targeting them for kicks or for a purpose not provably militarily necessary would be.