we move to canada: the best-kept secret of the US war crimes: crimes against children
... The first example of war crimes against children, which are well
documented, occurred during the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, when
the children's hospital in Kabul was bombed, its patients thereby
murdered, contrary to the Red Cross Convention of 1864. Other children
were killed as "collateral damage" during the wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq, contrary to the Geneva Convention ban on indiscriminate killing
in wartime, though numbers of dead are unknown. During spring 2004,
during the assault on Falluja, Iraq, some 300 children, including
peaceful demonstrators, were killed. Their dead bodies were filmed live
on al-Jazeera Television throughout the Arabic-speaking world. ...
... The first example of war crimes against children, which are well
documented, occurred during the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, when
the children's hospital in Kabul was bombed, its patients thereby
murdered, contrary to the Red Cross Convention of 1864. Other children
were killed as "collateral damage" during the wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq, contrary to the Geneva Convention ban on indiscriminate killing
in wartime, though numbers of dead are unknown. During spring 2004,
during the assault on Falluja, Iraq, some 300 children, including
peaceful demonstrators, were killed. Their dead bodies were filmed live
on al-Jazeera Television throughout the Arabic-speaking world. ...
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