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I'm talking about bombing the planet full of Maquis colonists (civilians).
Also, falsifying evidence to rope a civilization into a war.
well, nobody actually died (civilians), as they evacuated, and the maquis colonists and cardassians just switched planets as a result. does that count as a war crime in the 2370s in the Federation? I dunno.
not sure if that technically counts as a war crime. certainly a crime, but a war crime? dunno about that, either
Forced resettlement with the purpose of removing a certain group is people from a certain area are generally known as Ethnic Cleansing, which is legally distinct from genocide today (but I hope not in the 24th century). It's also a crime against humanity and against the Geneva conventions.
It wasn't a certain group though, it was all Federation citizens being forced to leave a planet which was agreed in negotiations with Cardassia to have been rightful Cardassian territory which was illegally occupied by the Federation in the first place.
Federation citizens ARE a group though. Let me rephrase this a bit more offensively and modern day:
The difference is it was Federation citizens doing it to rogue Federation citizens, who had actually committed a similar crime of forced relocation by making a Cardassian colony uninhabitable to Cardassians.
That doesn’t make the situation totally right, that’s just to say it’s morally gray.
It’s a little like calling the Alamo a genocide.
I mean, the planet was literally made uninhabitable for humans. The toxic atmosphere is indiscriminate as to what polity they are a citizen of.