RE: Doesn't that make headlines in America? Hospital bombing in Kunduz
October 5, 2015 at 7:46 pm
(October 4, 2015 at 5:44 pm)Tiberius Wrote: I'd wait until further investigation is done before declaring it a war crime. Whilst I admit it's looking more likely, we need to know whether the attacking forces were aware it was a hospital when they authorized the strike.
If they weren't aware, either because they didn't check, or were misinformed, then it's an accident. It shouldn't have happened either way.
The hospital should have been clearly marked with the approved markings.
http://www.hrweb.org/legal/geneva1.html#Article%2023
"Article 42. The distinctive flag of the Convention shall be hoisted only over such medical units and establishments as are entitled to be respected under the Convention, and only with the consent of the military authorities. In mobile units, as in fixed establishments, it may be accompanied by the national flag of the Party to the conflict to which the unit or establishment belongs. Nevertheless, medical units which have fallen into the hands of the enemy shall not fly any flag other than that of the Convention. Parties to the conflict shall take the necessary steps, in so far as military considerations permit, to make the distinctive emblems indicating medical units and establishments clearly visible to the enemy land, air or naval forces, in order to obviate the possibility of any hostile action."
The hilarious thing is that the US had been whining two minutes before about the Russians using dumb bombs in Syria and killing civilians. So if the hospital had been properly identified with the Geneva Convention markings then the US did in fact commit a deliberate war crime. Therefore, since Obama is the Commander-in-Chief he should be charged with a war crime and prosecuted per the provisions in the Geneva Convention.
