• teft@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s not a war crime to use explosives on single soldiers. If it was then a claymore or other mine would be illegal also. This sounds like one of those things soldiers tell each other on the battlefield but isn’t true, like 50 cal will rip flesh off a person if you fire it close enough. Or that it’s a war crime to use 50 cal on people.

    Here is the UN list of war crimes.

    https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/war-crimes.shtml

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      Section 6.2 of the 1999 UN Secretary-General’s Bulletin states: “The use of certain conventional weapons, such as … incendiary weapons is prohibited.”

      Antitank guns are legal, incendiary weapons such as the above are not. Napalm was made illegal against infantry through this but also antitank industry weapons.

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        That’s not an incendiary weapon. Incendiary weapons are like napalm, thermite, willy p. This is just a regular high explosive round. Probably something with a shaped charge like a HEAT (high explosive anti tank) warhead.