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Strikes on Bemani damaged key water reservoir for 20,000 people living in area amid a historic drought in the country

Military strikes that damaged two water storage facilities in southern Iran may constitute a war crime, military and legal experts say, after reviewing media reports and visual evidence of a 10 June strike on Bemani, a small district about 2 miles from the strait of Hormuz.

It’s unclear if the strikes deliberately targeted the district’s water tanks, or if they unintentionally destroyed a key reservoir for about 20,000 people living nearby. But if the tanks were the target, then the legal question becomes critical, Brian Finucane, a former state department lawyer, said. “It’s either a military objective or it’s a civilian object: attacking one is lawful, attacking the other is a war crime,” Finucane said.

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[–] godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 13 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The fuck do they mean "may?" In what realistic context does it not?

[–] Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip 2 points 30 minutes ago

I was thinking the exact same thing. This world has become a clownshow.

[–] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 7 points 11 hours ago

Getting really sick of these headlines feigning ignorance

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 3 points 10 hours ago
[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 hours ago

The very war is a war crime.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

may constitute a war crime?!?

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 4 points 13 hours ago

Bombing a school for young girls is a war crime. Still no punishments

Tired of all this limply worded tripe that comes from people's mouths and headlines.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 points 12 hours ago

America is a war crime.

[–] NightTitan@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

That hesgeth ain't no sissy. He's a war criminal. Him and the whole administration. Fuck. These. Animals.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Fuck may? What clown wrote this headline?

[–] ChetManly@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

Have a fucking spine.

"Targeting civil infrastructure is a war crime... we destroyed civilian infrastructure"

[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

War crime? More like bore crime. It's time for some cagefighting at the White House! WOOOOO!!!

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 23 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

I’m so sick of all the conditional language that lets trump continue to be a piece of shit that should have been imprisoned decades ago for rapes and tax dodging among other crimes or shot for war crimes today.

[–] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago

The crazier thing is that all these news organizations have lawyers on retainers and still they don’t use them. Call it a war crime, put your lawyers to work. A bunch of fucking cowards the lot of them.

Then you have “entertainment news” out there calling Obama a muslim born in Kenya for a decade. The world is upside down.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago

This entire administration is a war crime

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago

US Presidents and war crimes go together like Republicanism and pedophilia, classic combo.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Put it on the pile.

[–] stickyprimer@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

It pretty obviously is one. But who is really the governing authority to make it official?

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 81 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Bruh the administration has been like.. "We're going to do war crimes".. then proceed to do what they said.. and the lawyers are like "Welll maaybeee its a bit war-crimey..." while the administration is like yeah no dog we doing war crimes.

[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 1 points 18 hours ago

Well at least they followed through on what they said for once

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[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It’s even June, bro. May was last month.

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Fuck. I'm travelling through time again.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Dude, the day before yesterday was already the 10th

[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This whole "war" is nothing but war crime after war crime, all to distract Americans from sex crimes.

[–] Gormadt@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 day ago

Hell it even started with a crime against humanity! (that school for those who have forgotten (there's been SO MUCH going on))

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

That's why the US is so adversary to the International Criminal Court.

[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 3 points 20 hours ago

WAR Crimes? FINALLY something to STOP the Law and Order Crowd! ANY Minute they'll DENOUNCE these WAR CRIMES because it's OPPOSITE Law AND Order! ANY Minute it will happen! SOON!

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] pirate2377@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"War Crimes? What's that? We're no longer apart of NATO because it's too WOKE now, so war crimes don't exist!" -- Trump, Probably

[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 2 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

When did the US leave NATO?

[–] pirate2377@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Soon enough if they actually try to charge Trump with being a war criminal, lol

[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The NATO charges people with anything? Are you by any chance american?

[–] pirate2377@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

No. The UN does iirc, I mistaked the UN for NATO, but I thought it made the quote funnier since Trump wouldn't know the difference, would he? Yes though, I am an American

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[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 points 20 hours ago

Well, Trump is a convicted criminal so might as well add War criminal to that list.

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] magnue@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Being a billionaire pedo is a crime too according to some experts but here we are.

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