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[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 58 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yup, attacking water systems is a violation of the Geneva conventions and a clear unlawful order of which members of the military are compelled to not follow as they are bound by the Geneva Conventions and trained on it.

Protocol I (Article 54) and Protocol II (Article 15) of the Geneva Conventions prohibit attacking, destroying, or rendering useless objects indispensable to civilian survival, such as drinking water installations, dams, and dykes.

Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits collective penalties and all measures of intimidation or terrorism. Threatening to cut off electricity and water to an entire population as a means of coercing political compliance clearly constitutes collective punishment.

Destroying Iran's electric and water supply is a war crime.

[-] flandish@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

it’s a reminder that those who volunteer for the mil are, indeed, pieces of shit.

[-] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

I can see the problem from here. Trump doesn't view the "enemy" as "human".

See, just use words and everything is now OK.

[-] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 9 points 13 hours ago

I think you misspelled America.

~~Trump~~ America doesn’t view the “enemy” as “human”.

[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 points 13 hours ago

I'm not sure "human" is a category that matters to trump. There's just him and everyone else.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 day ago

Except it's not just Trump. Everybody in the chain of command is culpable and directly complicit. Every single one.

[-] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Money changes everything.

Hay, that would make a good song title.

[-] HieroProtagonist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Oh, i am pretty sure he sees the enemy as human, most imperialist did... the thing is though, that they see themself as something better than human...

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