#1Jan 25th, 2012
2) Not allowing a prisoner to be seen by the Red Cross
3) Suicide bombers against civilian targets....
4) Use of civilians including women and children as human shields to defend artillery and tank positions
5) Use of civilians including women and children as human shields to block bullets and set off booby traps.
6) Use of civilians including children to search for explosives
7) Use of civilians including children to search for enemy positions and draw enemy fire
8 )Deliberately destroying civilian infrastructure for purely collective punishment reasons without any military purpose:
- hospitals, schools and universities, police and fire stations, mosques and churches, government buildings
- sewage and water distribution systems
- sewage and water treatment systems
- food production, storage and distribution
- electricity production and distribution
- fuel storage and distribution
9) Deliberately attacking ambulance drivers, paramedics, firemen and police and innocent civilians. including women and children.
10) Ethnic cleansing
11) Interference with the delivery of international medical and food aid, causing death from easily treatable diseases and food insecurity
12) Deliberately attacking UN and NGO aid convoys.
It should make any difference who does these things for them to be a war crimes or not. These actions either are or aren't war crimes regardless of who does them.
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Are any of these activities war crimes or crimes against humanity?
