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Strikes on Bemani damaged key water reservoir for 20,000 people living in area amid a historic drought in the country

Military strikes that damaged two water storage facilities in southern Iran may constitute a war crime, military and legal experts say, after reviewing media reports and visual evidence of a 10 June strike on Bemani, a small district about 2 miles from the strait of Hormuz.

It’s unclear if the strikes deliberately targeted the district’s water tanks, or if they unintentionally destroyed a key reservoir for about 20,000 people living nearby. But if the tanks were the target, then the legal question becomes critical, Brian Finucane, a former state department lawyer, said. “It’s either a military objective or it’s a civilian object: attacking one is lawful, attacking the other is a war crime,” Finucane said.

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[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 1 points 10 minutes ago

This entire administration is a war crime

[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago

US Presidents and war crimes go together like Republicanism and pedophilia, classic combo.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Put it on the pile.

[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

Well, Trump is a convicted criminal so might as well add War criminal to that list.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 15 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I’m so sick of all the conditional language that lets trump continue to be a piece of shit that should have been imprisoned decades ago for rapes and tax dodging among other crimes or shot for war crimes today.

[-] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

The crazier thing is that all these news organizations have lawyers on retainers and still they don’t use them. Call it a war crime, put your lawyers to work. A bunch of fucking cowards the lot of them.

Then you have “entertainment news” out there calling Obama a muslim born in Kenya for a decade. The world is upside down.

[-] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 hour ago

WAR Crimes? FINALLY something to STOP the Law and Order Crowd! ANY Minute they'll DENOUNCE these WAR CRIMES because it's OPPOSITE Law AND Order! ANY Minute it will happen! SOON!

[-] underThunder@thelemmy.club 3 points 4 hours ago

Pretty sure it's not "may" but "is" a war crime.

[-] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 21 points 8 hours ago
[-] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 10 points 8 hours ago

It’s even June, bro. May was last month.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago

Dude, the day before yesterday was already the 10th

[-] prole 2 points 3 hours ago
[-] pirate2377@lemmy.zip 9 points 8 hours ago

"War Crimes? What's that? We're no longer apart of NATO because it's too WOKE now, so war crimes don't exist!" -- Trump, Probably

[-] Magnum@infosec.pub 2 points 4 hours ago

When did the US leave NATO?

[-] pirate2377@lemmy.zip 1 points 38 minutes ago

Soon enough if they actually try to charge Trump with being a war criminal, lol

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

Pretty sure they're thinking of the UN (whose Geneva Convention first codified war crimes)..and still wrong about the US leaving 😄

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 16 points 9 hours ago

That's why the US is so adversary to the International Criminal Court.

[-] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 50 points 12 hours ago

This whole "war" is nothing but war crime after war crime, all to distract Americans from sex crimes.

[-] Gormadt@slrpnk.net 7 points 8 hours ago

Hell it even started with a crime against humanity! (that school for those who have forgotten (there's been SO MUCH going on))

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 84 points 13 hours ago

Bruh the administration has been like.. "We're going to do war crimes".. then proceed to do what they said.. and the lawyers are like "Welll maaybeee its a bit war-crimey..." while the administration is like yeah no dog we doing war crimes.

[-] Kanda@reddthat.com 1 points 19 minutes ago

Well at least they followed through on what they said for once

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

Dunno why the voters who didnt do anything when they couldve are upset that the shitty govt they got isnt doing anything. Well duh.

[-] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

Dunno why the voters would be so apathetic when both candidates were pro genocide and pro war. Weird.

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago

That's the part that pisses me off most. If kamala would've won, she'd be better than trump, for sure. But beyond that, this fucker would be rotting in prison right now.

[-] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

Lmao. You think Kamala "fundamentally the same as Biden" Harris would prosecute trump, after Biden declined to pursue justice?

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 53 minutes ago

State crimes at least would have gotten him there.

[-] borkborkbork@piefed.social 9 points 8 hours ago

Correct.

Now think on: If Bernie had won 2016, we could have been spared all of this madness.

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Biden's AG didn't, and she campaigned exclusively to republicans, no shot she'd appoint an AG who would, for fear of alienating the imaginary moderate republicans.

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 50 minutes ago

You're talking federal crimes though. If he didn't become president again, it wouldn't be up to the federal government. He had more than enough crimes against states to put him away for life.

[-] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago

war-crimey

I like that word.

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 12 hours ago
[-] em2@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 hours ago

and none of it matters because there will be zero consequences

[-] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 hours ago

It does create a war crime. It can't yet be declared until the case is heard. Will it be heard and considered in court? Will Israels war crimes be heard and considered in court?

[-] borkborkbork@piefed.social 2 points 8 hours ago

sure, right after they get to all of Russia's war crimes in Ukraine. Any day now. Yep.

fuck

[-] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

And Ukraine war crimes against Russia? They've been using unmanned "killbots" which don't have the ability to accept a surrendering soldier.

[-] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 5 points 12 hours ago

Nothing is going to happen either way, so we may as well dispense with the niceties like "it may constitute" and just be honest with each other. It is a war crime, but we don't feel like there's any realistic opportunity to do anything about it so, there's no harm in saying it is, nothing will happen, and we'll all move on.

[-] howdy@lemmy.ml 4 points 12 hours ago

bro, whether or not if was the intended target should not affect if it was a war crime or not??

you can't just say oops teehee 😇 and absolve yourself??????

[-] Mannimarco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 12 hours ago

Just add it to the fucking pile, Jesus Christ

[-] Equinox1289@sh.itjust.works 3 points 12 hours ago

Good luck prosecuting when the US when it doesn't recognize the ICC

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