Comments on: Wednesday news roundup https://www.yourish.com/2011/04/06/13944 Cutting straight to the point Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:15:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Michael Lonie https://www.yourish.com/2011/04/06/13944/comment-page-1#comment-43649 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:15:18 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=13944#comment-43649 Under real international law, the Fourth Geneva Convention, if Qadhdhaffi hides his troops among civilians and the French cause civilian casualties when they attack the Libyan troops, the responsibility is Qadhdhaffi’s. The presence of military targets removes the protection from normally protected persons or buildings. Fighters dressing in civilian clothes become unlawful combatants, as are civilians fighting under arms without uniforms or other identifying marks clearly recognizable at a distance. In other words everything that France’s enemy is doing now, and Israel’s enemies do continuously, violates international law.

]]> By: russ https://www.yourish.com/2011/04/06/13944/comment-page-1#comment-43648 Wed, 06 Apr 2011 23:11:00 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=13944#comment-43648 I love this line from the article:

“We’ve formally requested that there be no collateral damage for the civilian population,” he said. “That obviously makes operations more difficult.”

I really wonder to whom they made this “format request.” To Ghadaffi? “Oh, please, Colonel, won’t you move your troops away from civilian areas so that we can kill them?” Yeah, that works.

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