Hacker News with Generative AI: War Crimes

Even If Those Weren't War Plans in Hegseth's Signal Chat, They Were War Crimes (techdirt.com)
When the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg revealed this week that senior White House officials had accidentally added him to their Yemen bombing planning session on Signal, he did something remarkable: he actually protected operational security better than the officials themselves did.

National Security, War Crimes, Surveillance, Journalism, Politics

15 points by hn_acker 30 days ago | 6 comments

US 'deletes evidence' of Russia's kidnap of Ukrainian children (independent.co.uk)
An international effort to trace and rescue tens of thousands of children kidnapped from Ukraine to Russia and prosecute those responsible has been crippled by the US state department’s deletion of evidence.

Ukraine, Russia, International Relations, War Crimes, Human Rights

27 points by croes 37 days ago | 1 comments

List of people indicted in the International Criminal Court (wikipedia.org)
The list of people who have been indicted in the International Criminal Court includes all individuals who have been indicted on any counts of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, aggression, or contempt of court in the International Criminal Court (ICC) pursuant to the Rome Statute.

International Law, War Crimes, Human Rights, Criminal Justice

6 points by vinnyglennon 54 days ago | 0 comments

ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas officials (apnews.com)
THE HAGUE (AP) — The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and Hamas officials, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity over the war in Gaza and the October 2023 attacks that triggered Israel’s offensive in the Palestinian territory.

International Law, Politics, War Crimes

17 points by Tomte 156 days ago | 1 comments

The Haditha Massacre Photos That the Military Didn't Want the World to See (newyorker.com)

War Crimes, Military, Photography, Photojournalism, Iraq War

10 points by vinnyglennon 240 days ago | 2 comments

My Trial as a War Criminal (By Leo Szilard, Inventor of Nuclear Chain Reaction) (wikipedia.org)

History, War Crimes, Nuclear Weapons

33 points by eigenvalue 255 days ago | 1 comments

Russian death camp: Three stories of Ukrainian prisoners (texty.org.ua)

Russia, Ukraine, War Crimes, History

86 points by dralley 301 days ago | 82 comments

ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Shoigu and Gerasimov (icc-cpi.int)