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MomsAVoxellyesterday at 10:13 PM0 repliesview on HN

>sabotage is legitimate warfare

Show me the Article in the CCW which supports this claim. And do you mean sabotage against civilian infrastructure, or military materials? Again, show the Article, either way.

>If hezbollah are legitimate combatants, then they have to wear a uniform

Yes, true. Just as those responsible for the pager attacks had to identify themselves as combatants, also.

> If China puts backdoors in all the chips we buy from them, and we build weapons with those chips, and China pressed a button that self destructs all things made with those chips, that is also not a warcrime.

If this were to occur, it would be considered a war crime under one or more of the following articles:

- Perfidy (Art. 37 AP I)

- Indiscriminate attack (Art. 51(4) AP I)

- Excessive incidental civilian harm / disproportionality (Art. 51(5)(b) AP I)

- Treachery (broader Hague prohibition)

- Superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering (Art. 35(2) AP I)

- Failure to take feasible precautions (Art. 57 AP I)

Any of these 6 violations can constitute war crimes.

>“War crimes are pretty much only treating POWs incorrectly by doing medical "experiments" on them or genociding them.”

Okay, this is just plain, ignorant, crazy talk.

>”Please quote the part where blowing up a civilian with your target is called a war crime,”

Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions and from the Rome Statute of the ICC.