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Syria's friend (Turkey) depriving Syrians from their share of Euphrates water for two weeks now.
Comment: Collective punishment is a warcrime!
Fourth Geneva Convention
Collective punishments
Article 33. No persons may be punished for an offense he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.
Pillage is prohibited.
Reprisals against persons and their property are prohibited.
Under the 1949 Geneva Conventions, collective punishment is a war crime. By collective punishment, the drafters of the Geneva Conventions had in mind the reprisal killings of World War I and World War II. In the First World War, during the Rape of Belgium, the Germans executed Belgian villagers in mass retribution for resistance activity. In World War II, the Germans carried out a form of collective punishment to suppress resistance. Entire villages or towns or districts were held responsible for any resistance activity that occurred in them.[3] The conventions, to counter this, reiterated the principle of individual responsibility. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Commentary to the conventions states that parties to a conflict often would resort to "intimidatory measures to terrorize the population" in hopes of preventing hostile acts, but such practices "strike at guilty and innocent alike. They are opposed to all principles based on humanity and justice."
Additional Protocol II of 1977 explicitly forbids collective punishment. But as fewer states have ratified this protocol than GCIV, GCIV Article 33 is the one more commonly quoted.
Reader Comments
Collective punishment of a whole civilian population by cutting water and/or electricity is a war crime. It has been used over and over by Israel in Palestine and now the EU/NATO/US and their puppets in Kiev do the same thing. The people have been softened up to not think twice about it and allow it to happen.
Just like with torture. No one raises an eyebrow any longer that torture is done by the EU/NATO/US.
Just like with torture. No one raises an eyebrow any longer that torture is done by the EU/NATO/US.
Syria will retaliate
The Asi river which is born in Syria and flows through Turkey will be cut down by Syria. The people who govern Turkey are the best collaborators the West could get.
The guy is building a presidential palace for himself with 1000 rooms. You can imagine his narcissism.
Atatürk, the founder of Turkey who said : Peace at home and peace in the World, must be turning in his grave. He also said that war is homicide unless you are defending your own country.
The Asi river which is born in Syria and flows through Turkey will be cut down by Syria. The people who govern Turkey are the best collaborators the West could get.
The guy is building a presidential palace for himself with 1000 rooms. You can imagine his narcissism.
Atatürk, the founder of Turkey who said : Peace at home and peace in the World, must be turning in his grave. He also said that war is homicide unless you are defending your own country.
a thousand rooms
A thousand rooms and an empty heart what a sad place to be
And yes War IS homicide.
A thousand rooms and an empty heart what a sad place to be
And yes War IS homicide.
At least some countries in the EU were recently happy that Turkey made excuses for the Armenian genocide of 1915-1916. And the past being forgiven by the EU high priests of democracy and double standard, there are good grounds to follow the latest example of a strongly EU/NATO/US supported Ukraine government and EU-wanna-be that blocks the water supply to Crimea. What Turkey is doing to Syria is probably in full accord with the latest version of western democracy, warcrime or not.