cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/33264
US military investigators have said it is likely its forces were responsible for a strike on a girls’ school in Iran that killed scores of children and has been condemned as a war crime, according to a report by Reuters.
The attack on the Minab girls’ school in southern Iran on Saturday is believed to have killed at least 165 people, mostly children under the age of 12.
The UN’s education agency, Unesco, said the attack was a “grave violation of humanitarian law”.
US war secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday that the military was investigating the incident. Investigators have not reached a final conclusion and it is still unclear what evidence contributed to their assessment, Reuters reported, citing two unnamed officials.
It was also unclear what type of munitions were used and who was responsible, the outlet said.
An investigation by news outlet Middle East Eye determined that the attack on the school was a “double tap” strike – where a target is hit a second time in order to kill rescuers who come to the aid of the injured.
“When the first bomb hit the school, one of the teachers and the principal moved a group of students to the prayer hall to protect them,” a Red Crescent medic told the outlet, citing conversations he had with survivors.
“The principal called the parents and told them to come and pick up their children. But the second bomb hit that area as well. Only a small number of those who had taken shelter survived.”
The UK has joined the war on Iran – which is illegal because it was not approved by the UN or US congress – by allowing the use of its bases for strikes against the country.
Prime minister Keir Starmer has claimed the UK’s involvement is an act of self-defence, despite the fact the US and Israel started the war.
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I'm an atheist too but have no problem believing that those responsible for these actions are demons, or at least non-supernatural analogs of demons. That they have their origins in a material world of ultra-privilige (within a system that rewards cruelty and encourages greed and fosters supremacism of the depraved) rather than having origins in a mythological netherworld seems irrelevant to me. They still epitomize cruelty, greed, sadism, satisfaction from the despair of the innocent, "blasphemy" against life and human thriving and joy. They are demons or 'close enough as makes no difference.'
The part that I have come to struggle with as an atheist is that I desperately yearn for some kind of cosmic justice. I wish there was a hell for these demons to burn in for their crimes against humanity and life and the literal earth. Perhaps not for eternity but I want them to burn long enough that the suffering they have to endure is somewhat commensurate with the suffering they have caused, a bit longer still for the suffering that they delighted in causing.
But instead, most of them will live statistically long lives of oppulance, where all their needs and nearly all their wants are met, their demonic work praised by the other demons that surround them, smug and self satisfied only to eventually die while being coddled and cared for, ultimately facing the same neutral oblivion we all face.
It enrages me in a way I can't ever find a release for. It eats at me. I know I "shouldn't let it," but that's easy to say. I also know rationally that such an intense desire for revenge (or retributive justice) isn't really conducive to the kind of future that communists want to build via socialism, and it isn't conducive for my personal well-being. But I'd be lying if I said I don't yearn to see these fucking demons suffer for what they've done, for what they are doing. But most of them proba ly won't and I have to learn to accept that and focus on the small things that can be done now to help build a future where demons are never even allowed the opportunity to fulfill any of their evil fucking deeds let alone rule much of the earth through large scale terrorism like they do now.