US destroys Iran reservoirs, leaving thousands without water in searing heat. Some 20,000 residents lost access to safe drinking water after the strikes damaged two reservoirs in Sirik.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3356630/thousands-iranians-left-without-water-searing-heat-after-us-hits-reservoirs
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radiofreebc@lemmy.world · 83 pts · 54d
yogthos@lemmy.ml · 61 pts · 54d
Yup, attacking water systems is a violation of the Geneva conventions and a clear unlawful order of which members of the military are compelled to not follow as they are bound by the Geneva Conventions and trained on it.
Destroying Iran's electric and water supply is a war crime.
flandish@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 53d
it’s a reminder that those who volunteer for the mil are, indeed, pieces of shit.
T3CHT@sh.itjust.works · -16 pts · 53d
I thought like you once.
I agree this war, and many, are unjust.
Somewhere around 9/11 and Iraq I had to learn that the military is a necessity, and they can also be abused. I suppose my grand dad learned that when he was drafted for the big one, and we talked about it - in our way, after 9/11 when it all seemed to go sideways.
It's a shame we send our volunteers on missions like this. It's a shame we have to draft people to protect ourselves. It's a shame we lay shame on our service members when they are misused and abused by our politicians.
The military is a tool. Soldiers are people.
I hope you can learn that too, some day.
Count042@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 53d
Soldiers that were legally and morally obligated to refuse the orders to strike the water supply.
You would have argued the guards at the concentration camps shouldn't have been prosecuted.
"Just following orders" is not a legal defense against accusations of committing war crimes.
Alpha71@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 53d
Like how they had to spend trillions and countless lives only to solve ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING!!!?
Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 52d
Not only did they solve nothing, they created thousands of new problems lol.
Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 52d
Every single war America has fought in since WWII has been illegal and unjustifiable. The fuck are you smoking?
Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 52d
LOL
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 54d
I can see the problem from here. Trump doesn't view the "enemy" as "human".
See, just use words and everything is now OK.
yogthos@lemmy.ml · 28 pts · 54d
Except it's not just Trump. Everybody in the chain of command is culpable and directly complicit. Every single one.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 53d
Money changes everything.
Hay, that would make a good song title.
Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 53d
I think you misspelled America.
HieroProtagonist@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 54d
Oh, i am pretty sure he sees the enemy as human, most imperialist did... the thing is though, that they see themself as something better than human...
blackbrook@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 53d
I'm not sure "human" is a category that matters to trump. There's just him and everyone else.
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 37 pts · 54d
it is a war crime and the only people keeping track are the ones that are intentionally not empowered to do anything about it by people committing the war crime.
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net · 16 pts · 54d
There's a reason the US has never been a signatory to the International Criminal Court.
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 54d
It is. No one with the power to do anything about it give a shit.
AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 53d
abc@suppo.fi · -43 pts · 54d
KimBongUn420@lemmy.ml · 28 pts · 54d
mrdown@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 54d
Fuck off with your bullshit.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/10/middleeast/iran-water-reservoir-us-bomb-hnk-intl
abc@suppo.fi · -29 pts · 54d
mrdown@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 54d
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 54d
yogthos@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 54d
you're a scumbag
PotatoPie@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 53d
Every allegation is a confession
mrdown@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 54d