Thought sabotaging enemy equipment to explode isn’t.
Had this been a bunch of Russian or Wagner Group radio equipment exploding because they had been rigged by Ukraine, it wouldn’t be a war crime - combatants don’t stop being valid targets even if they are on leave and are at fault of endangering the civil population, possibly themselves causing a war crime by effectively using civilians as human shields in the process.
Pagers are civilian objects, they’re categorically different from radio equipment because they can be used by civilians.
Furthermore, these exploded in civilian structures among the civilian population. Pagers blew up inside people’s cars while driving down the highway. They blew up on grocery stores. They blew up children.
A pager isn’t “enemy equipment” in the same way a missile or a gun is. There were literally cell phone stores exploding in Lebanon. A 9-year-old girl died. This is 100% a fucking war crime. If someone kills a member of your family do you get to booby-trap the stove in their house so the kids get their faces melted off?
No kidding. Is this not some kind of war crime?
Yes, indiscriminate bombing is a war crime.
It seemed pretty discriminate to me
So they killed those kids on purpose?
Thought sabotaging enemy equipment to explode isn’t.
Had this been a bunch of Russian or Wagner Group radio equipment exploding because they had been rigged by Ukraine, it wouldn’t be a war crime - combatants don’t stop being valid targets even if they are on leave and are at fault of endangering the civil population, possibly themselves causing a war crime by effectively using civilians as human shields in the process.
Pagers are civilian objects, they’re categorically different from radio equipment because they can be used by civilians.
Furthermore, these exploded in civilian structures among the civilian population. Pagers blew up inside people’s cars while driving down the highway. They blew up on grocery stores. They blew up children.
It’s terrorism.
A pager isn’t “enemy equipment” in the same way a missile or a gun is. There were literally cell phone stores exploding in Lebanon. A 9-year-old girl died. This is 100% a fucking war crime. If someone kills a member of your family do you get to booby-trap the stove in their house so the kids get their faces melted off?
I would think involving civilians usually is. Not like it’s a first for them.
It should be if it isn’t.