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.
yeah because genocide and slavery started in 1492?
pfftt hahaha… you ML guys either have tapioca for brains or actively ignore history…
wait, could it be both?
that said, " if the natives were able to kill the colonists that “discovered” the new world" coulda been cool af. But the Aztecs kinda already had a good grasp on genocide and slavery as their empire was built on outward expansion, acquisition of their neighbors and their property, and they were really into human sacrifice.
but yeah would be awesome to see the cortez and columbus types torn to pieces on the shores…
Genocide and slavery are abstract concepts. In history there are isolated phenomena of genocide and slavery we can pull out and discuss. But there is a single historical process of genocide and slavery that we are literally still participating in and we can generally call that historical process the Western European Empire. The Western European empire as we know it extends back in an unbroken line for at least 600 years and it integrated genocide and slavery into its core process of propagation. At it’s height, the Western European Empire dominated over 80% of the world population. The USA is the helm of the Western European Empire, and we could potentially call it the North Atlantic Empire, because some people get confused by the fact they think the USA is not Western European. Regardless, yes, if the indigenous people literally everywhere were able to send every Western European expedition packing, the world would be in a much better place. If the inhabitants of what we call the Western Hemisphere had done it, the world would be in a better place. But since they didn’t, it is up to all of us to do the work of decolonizing our homes and bringing about an end to this historical process.
Obviously I was talking about the genocide and slavery that America is well known for. I love tapioca!
Yeah unfortunately they didn’t get the Cook treatment, lol.