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To: dynachrome

What about more cluster bombs?

It’s only criminal when the other side does it


7 posted on 07/21/2023 6:26:45 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: NWFree

Turkey has been supplying cluster bombs since January.


17 posted on 07/21/2023 6:56:56 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: NWFree

Oddly enough, you didn’t care when the other side did it, and now you do.


20 posted on 07/21/2023 7:36:14 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: NWFree

How many times do you have to be told that cluster bombs are not a war crime?

“Is using them a war crime?
The use of cluster bombs itself does not violate international law, but using them against civilians can be a violation. As in any strike, determining a war crime requires looking at whether the target was legitimate and if precautions were taken to avoid civilian casualties.”

“The part of international law where this starts playing [a role], though, is indiscriminate attacks targeting civilians,” Human Rights Watch’s associate arms director Mark Hiznay told The Associated Press news agency. “So that’s not necessarily related to the weapons, but the way the weapons are used.”


27 posted on 07/21/2023 8:39:45 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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