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kruncktoday at 1:55 PM4 repliesview on HN

  “We just launch it and we know everything will be dead – everything that will be found there in this particular area will be dead,” says Kokhanovskyy. “There is no connection to the drone at all, you cannot see the video, nothing… Everything it sees will be killed.”
Because there are never any civilians caught in the middle of two warring armies, right? I think the ICC will be getting real busy soon.

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Muromectoday at 2:09 PM

That alone doesn't cut war crime definition to get attention to ICC and isn't really different from the usual aerial bombing. You drop the bomb from a plane or 100 of them somewhere around the densely populated area and don't know who they kill, as there is no connection to the drone.

Civilians dying in an armed conflict doesn't cut the definition of warcrime by itself. Deliberate targeting and intentional destruction of civil infrastructure that supports life or something like it is.

Then of course there is stuff that ICC isn't getting busy about which is clearly above the threshold -- the regular drone safaris in and around Kherson (city with pre-war population circa quarter million people) happening for the last few years.

maratctoday at 2:16 PM

> ICC will be getting real busy soon

How likely is your opinion to change in the light of the information that, according to the article, it's Ukraine who uses these drones?

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tpolmtoday at 4:32 PM

“We just launch it and we know everything will be dead – everything that will be found there in this particular area will be dead,” says Kokhanovskyy.

Everything! Everything! Like all the deer, all the rabbits, all the decoys! Obviously we trust Kokhanovskyy

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reaperducertoday at 3:15 PM

I think the ICC will be getting real busy soon.

The ICC judges have less real-world power than a Pop Idol judge.

The ICC only works if every nation plays by the rules. Fewer and fewer do these days.