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2022-04-06 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Ukrainian official calls for reprisals against civilians who collaborate with the Russian military

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Posted by badanov 2022-04-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Huh. Aren't reprisals against civilians a war crime?

I guess it depends on who does it. Like when Obama murdered children with drones it wasn't a war crime.

Posted by Omomolet Phutch9064 2022-04-06 01:51|| 2022-04-06 01:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Huh. Aren't reprisals against civilians a war crime?

Geneva Convention allows occupying military to take reprisals for civilian attacks.

Posted by badanov 2022-04-06 02:03|| 2022-04-06 02:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Isn't that (reprisals) what started this whole thing?

Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-04-06 04:50|| 2022-04-06 04:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Accusations againt the Ukrainian government fall flat when Putin's mouthpieces in the Russian press are calling for a second Holodomor.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-04-06 06:38|| 2022-04-06 06:38|| Front Page Top

#5 See the French, Dutch, et al upon liberation in '44-45.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-04-06 07:10|| 2022-04-06 07:10|| Front Page Top

#6 define "collaboration":

Aid and comfort is one thing.
Keeping your head down and not pissing off the guys with guns when you don't have one is another.

Posted by Mercutio 2022-04-06 10:03|| 2022-04-06 10:03|| Front Page Top

#7 P2k, don't know much about the Dutch, but I know what happened to the la Milice. Pretty sure it went the same way with the dutch.

Posted by Chris 2022-04-06 10:32|| 2022-04-06 10:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Yeah, the Dutch know all about war crimes. They're so good at them that unlike the Nazis, not a single one of them dangled from the hangman's noose. Even though they richly deserved it.

Netherlands apologizes to Indonesia over war crimes

Prime Minister Mark Rutte has apologized to Indonesia after a study found that the Dutch army used extreme violence, including against civilians, during the archipelago nation's war of independence.

The study, which took more than four years to conclude, said sources showed that atrocities in the then Dutch East Indies were committed in a systematic way.

It found "that the use of extreme violence by the Dutch armed forces was not only widespread, but often deliberate, too."

"It was condoned at every level: political, military and legal."

"The research shows that the vast majority of those who bore responsibility on the Dutch side — politicians, officers, civil servants, judges and others — had or could have had knowledge of the systematic use of extreme violence," the researchers said.

"There was a collective willingness to condone, justify and conceal it, and to let it go unpunished. All of this happened with a view to the higher goal: That of winning the war," they said.

The review cited "extrajudicial executions, ill-treatment and torture, detention under inhumane conditions, the torching of houses and villages, the theft and destruction of property and food supplies, disproportionate air raids and artillery shelling, and what were often random mass arrests and mass internment."

Gosh, sounds just like what the Russians are being accused of, only we have hard proof and a confession.
What was that about reprisals against civilians being approved by the Geneva convention again?

Posted by Omomolet Phutch9064 2022-04-06 11:20|| 2022-04-06 11:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Holland did nothing compared to the Belgiums in the Congo.

Posted by 746 2022-04-06 13:07|| 2022-04-06 13:07|| Front Page Top

#10 Without the Belgians in the Congo, we'd not have Heart of Darkness.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-06 13:12|| 2022-04-06 13:12|| Front Page Top

#11 Your handlers can really sling that wiki, OP.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-04-06 13:54|| 2022-04-06 13:54|| Front Page Top

#12 No, Russians decided Ukraine belongs to them and any other thoughts are evil is what started this "thing".

Posted by Omaing Stalag1261 2022-04-06 15:16|| 2022-04-06 15:16|| Front Page Top

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