And to dismiss it as "taking care of collaborators" is either talking out one's a** or callously excusing it for whatever reason.
Better be able to prove collaboration, or its a crime, imho.
Then again, we're talking about a mentality the US fought to free itself of and should not be involved with (although with the current bunch of Uniparty cucks, they sure want to put us back there).
‘So we’re looking at executions of non combatants...’
Collaborators are combatants.