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by icebraining 3017 days ago
Drone kills without a declaration of war

That's not a war crime in itself.
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chopin 3017 days ago
Last I checked waging war without declaring one is a war crime.
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icebraining 3017 days ago
Can you check again? Where is that defined as a war crime?
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yorwba 3017 days ago
The Hague Convention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_Relative_to_the_Ope...
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icebraining 3017 days ago
That only applies to hostilities between the Contracting Parties; most of the drone strikes haven't even been against other countries, but independent militarized groups.
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WHoWHo 3017 days ago
It's always good when you write the rules.
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chopin 3017 days ago
The US and Pakistan are Contracting Parties. Carrying out drone strikes against citizens of one of those parties constitutes hostility against that nation in my book. I'd wager to say that if Pakistan would carry out drone strikes on US soil, the US would count that as an act of war on the side of Pakistan.
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WHoWHo 3017 days ago
Exactly. What would happen if Turkey kills Gülen with a drone strike in the US? Or China kills Falun Gong followers with drones in the US? I'm rather sure US would not follow their own line on drone strikes.
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fdsak 3017 days ago
That's not a war crime in itself.

Do you want to be get hurt by it ? I am not suggesting, but that is still killing and trespassing international boundaries .

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