#siegewarfare — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #siegewarfare, aggregated by home.social.
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“Former US Ambassador To Venezuela Says The Quiet part Out Loud About US #SiegeWarfare”
by The Dissident on Substack
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@[email protected]“Story admits in the [NYT] article, that through illegally seizing oil tankers leaving #Venezuela, ‘Squeezing this revenue stream would help force a tough decision by those around Mr. #Maduro to recognize that life without him in power is preferable to him remaining’”
https://open.substack.com/pub/the307/p/former-us-ambassador-to-venezuela
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Siege Warfare and the #Starvation of #Civilians as a Weapon of War and War Crime
by Beth Van Schaack
February 4, 2016
“Let me be clear: The use of starvation as a weapon of war is a war crime.”
Starvation of Civilians as a Method of Warfare
"The deliberate starvation of civilians is not a new tactic of war, and parallels to the situations in Leningrad and Biafra come immediately to mind. Current international humanitarian law (#IHL) — the law of armed conflict — makes clear that the deliberate starvation of the civilian population as a tactic of war is prohibited and a prosecutable war crime. This prohibition finds expression in Additional Protocol I (API) to the 1949 #GenevaConventions, which states that besieging forces may not starve civilians 'as a method of warfare.' Similarly, it is prohibited to 'attack, destroy, remove or render useless' any items necessary for civilians’ survival (e.g., #food, land used to cultivate food, #water, #irrigation works, etc.), regardless of whether the objective is to starve the civilian population, to cause them to move, or some other motive.
"[D]eliberately starving civilians as a method of warfare may be prosecuted before the International Criminal Court (#ICC) only when committed in an IAC. Once more, we see that even when conduct is is clearly recognized as a war crime, it is not always easy to find a court in which it can be prosecuted."
https://www.justsecurity.org/29157/siege-warfare-starvation-civilians-war-crime/
#IHL #SiegeWarfare, #Starvation #WarCrimes #Israel #Palestinians #BibiIsAWarCriminal #GenevaConvention