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Originally Posted by Hugh
Actually, it’s not…
The adverse treatment of civilians in WW2 led to a new (the fourth) Geneva Convention, specifically to provide for the protection of civilians in wartime.
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I don’t think those additions have changed anything, in regards to this operation.
Its main objective seems to be to prevent slave Labour.
Such conventions exist only to be ignored by the superior power at the time.
IF that power is defeated, then they may be brought to justice.
This one made me laugh
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It also banned the use of “weapons that cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering,” or cause “widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment.”
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sounds like a decent description of thermo-nuclear weapons, they did well banning them, didn’t they?