Posted on 05/30/2015 12:58:58 PM PDT by bob_denard
The military targeting of civilian infrastructure, especially of water supplies, is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. Yet this is precisely what NATO did in Libya, while blaming the damage on Gaddafi himself. Since then, the country's water infrastructure - and the suffering of its people - has only deteriorated further.
Numerous reports comment on the water crisis that is escalating across Libya as consumption outpaces production. Some have noted the environmental context in regional water scarcity due to climate change.
But what they ignore is the fact that the complex national irrigation system that had been carefully built and maintained over decades to overcome this problem was targeted and disrupted by NATO.
During the 2011 military invasion, press reports surfaced, mostly citing pro-rebel sources, claiming that pro-Gaddafi loyalists had shut down the water supply system as a mechanism to win the war and punish civilians.
(Excerpt) Read more at truth-out.org ...
It is refreshing to know that the concept of ‘War Crimes’ is not merely just some anachronism long forgotten during this new modern era where the unprovoked random murder of civilians and attacks on sovereign Embassy properties are routine in places such as Libya.
We need to quickly send Jerry Brown over to build a much needed bullet train.
Oh, good grief........
Sorry, I agree with Cripplecreek. NATO spends far too much time and energy on PC to be effective, just like the UN.
You don’t want our military to knock out electricity to the enemy when we are at war?
NATO was supposed to protect civilians in Libya genius, not decimate their water supply.
C’mon get your lies straight (lol).
Daniel Hannan complains that between the USA and Great Britain, we pay more than 30% of the funding for NATO. Then we turn around and supply the bulk of personnel and material.
And then there’s Turkey. They screw us every chance they get and Edrogan sounds more like Ahmadinejad every time he opens his mouth.
That was a very ignorant post, you posted to the wrong person evidently, because I have never commented on water and Libya.
You are also obviously a liar. Here is the post that you claimed was a “lie”.
To: shalom aleichem
You dont want our military to knock out electricity to the enemy when we are at war?
25 posted on 5/30/2015, 2:38:51 PM by ansel12
I'll post this on it...
I wouldn’t trust anything I read on truth-out. This rag is far-far left from even Obama. Most of them are straight out communists.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Truthout
And Bill Clintons terror bombing of Serbia wasnt a war crime?
NEW YORK TIMES WHITE WASH THUGS BILL CLINTON & GENERAL WESLEY CLARK OF WAR CRIMES AGAINST CHRISTIAN SERBS!
The torture, abuse, and murder of a POW named Momar Gaddafi was a war crime and the Secretary of State (Mrs. Clinton) took CREDIT for it: “WE came, WE saw, HE DIED, hahaha cackle cackle...”
FWIW
Were there war crime charges against them?
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