Conversation

Notices

Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Mar-2022 06:21:16 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

The crimes of Jimmy Carter, the nicest president:

afflictthecomfortable.org/2020…

In conversation Tuesday, 22-Mar-2022 06:21:16 UTC from libranet.de permalink
- Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Mar-2022 08:17:07 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
  in reply to
  - M. Grégoire
  @mpjgregoire Yeah they said war crimes, I didn't, I just said crimes, and I meant in the moral sense.
  
  In conversation Tuesday, 22-Mar-2022 08:17:07 UTC permalink
- M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Mar-2022 08:17:08 UTC M. Grégoire
  in reply to
  
  @clacke It's not clear to me that any of these actions amount to war crimes. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime
  In conversation Tuesday, 22-Mar-2022 08:17:08 UTC permalink
  Attachments
  1. War crime
    
    A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by the combatants, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, the conscription of children in the military, committing genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.The formal concept of war crimes emerged from the codification of the customary international law that applied to warfare between sovereign states, such as the Lieber Code (1863) of the Union Army in the American Civil War and the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 for international war. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the war-crime trials of the leaders of the Axis powers established the Nuremberg principles of law, such as the fact that international criminal law defines what is a war crime. In 1949, the Geneva Conventions legally defined new war crimes and established that states...

Public

Conversation

Notices

Feeds