[defrost]

  “failing to do everything possible to rescue those aboard is certainly a war crime,” as the Second Geneva Convention requires militaries to take all possible measures to search for and collect the shipwrecked, wounded, and sick.

[JumpCrisscross]

What are you quoting?

[tptacek]

"the co-director of the Institute for Policy Studies’ New Internationalism Project".

[defrost]

Ahh, cheers for that - busy morning & I failed to circle back.

This instance is hardly clear cut .. I put more effort into this peer comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47559796