Hacker News with Generative AI: War Crimes

I Think Lt Clint Lorance Is a Murderer (2021) (taskandpurpose.com)
For a soldier deployed to a place where suicide bombings are a routine threat, as they were in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, back in 2010, the sound of an approaching vehicle can be enough to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.

Military, War Crimes, Afghanistan

6 points by Tomte 4 days ago | 0 comments

Ex-UK Special Forces break silence on 'war crimes' by colleagues (bbc.com)
Former members of UK Special Forces have broken years of silence to give BBC Panorama eyewitness accounts of alleged war crimes committed by colleagues in Iraq and Afghanistan.

War Crimes, Iraq, Afghanistan, Military

140 points by tartoran 11 days ago | 81 comments

Body of Ukrainian journalist who died in Russian detention returned mutilated (cnn.com)

War Crimes, Ukraine, Russia, Journalism, Death

24 points by fodmap 23 days ago | 29 comments

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 57 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 64 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 81 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 183 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 268 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 282 days ago | 1 comments

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

Russia, Ukraine, War Crimes, History

86 points by dralley 328 days ago | 82 comments

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