Which war crimes were committed? Be specific.
You cant be too shocked about stuff that has an actual wikipedia article ...
He was sentenced to life without parole.
>The Maywand District murders were the murders of at least three Afghan civilians perpetrated by a group of U.S. Army soldiers from June 2009 to June 2010
Five of the Army soldiers faced murder charges while seven others were charged with participating in a coverup.
War is waged by people. War crimes are inevitable but it seems to me the US has done a fairly decent job of holding themselves accountable. How should the "US" be held accountable?
That's easy to claim when you're the one doing the investigation. By refusing to co-operate with the International Criminal Court, the US has signalled it will not be held responsible for war crimes unless it's convenient for it. That decision is not great for the US's optics.
I say that as someone whose ancestors were invaded by both US and Soviet forces, and I happen to think US forces really are less likely to commit war crimes - but that seems more a result of rugged individuals holding themselves to a higher standard, "The US" seems to have acted as badly as any other large, unaccountable institution would.
'Well that guy over there did worse' 'It was only 100 civilians' 'There could have been a bad guy amongst them' 'Oops I did it again'
That list was wikipedia, so pretty limited in scope and skewed to cases that have been charged and prosecuted.
lol at 'war crimes are inevitable'
This thread seems to want senior US leadership held to account for war crimes when they never ordered anything illegal.
War crimes are inevitable- war is waged by humans and humans make mistakes or do bad things to one another. Humans are not perfect. It's about what you do about them when you discover them. We have soldiers serving life sentences without parole for war crimes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_Memos
You can't have it both ways. You are either responsible for the management and oversight of your organization (corporation, country, etc.), and thus accountable, or you are negligent.
So criminal intent, or criminal negligence.
I would suggest that <1% of war crimes (number pulled directly out of thin air) are held to account. There are approximately 200,000 civilians dead as a result of these wars. Some 'legitimate' collateral damage, some because soldiers like to shoot people, some because they were journalists in their office, some because they went to the wrong wedding.
While the investigator, judge, and jury of these potential crimes are the people perpetrating them themselves we have absolutely no idea of what proportion are or are not investigated let alone punished. Certainly, the evidence of cases that have received public attention (see the collateral murder video and 'investigation' as just one such example) shows a pattern of lies and coverups to justify gross incompetence or outright psychopathic behavior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban#Violence_against_civil...
Even if it were the case ( it isn't), look up the Command responsibility principle. There's established precedent for it.
Illegal kidnapping, detention, and torture, of mostly innocent people at that, is another easy one.
They knew the target was innocent civilians?
Article 51(5)(b) forbids any attack ‘which may be expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, damage to civilian objects, or a combination thereof, which would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated’. Such attacks will be classified as a war crime.
https://legalanswers.sl.nsw.gov.au/hot-topics-80-internation...
Given the fact USA drone strikes have bombed at least a handful weddings, under that definition those actions go very close to being a war crimes.
According to the United Nations, the Taliban and its allies were responsible for 76% of civilian casualties in Afghanistan in 2009, 75% in 2010 and 80% in 2011.
Looks like they were pretty keen to wipe out that guys entire family; 16 year old son two weeks later and eventually nailed the 8 year old daughter. You dont often see bipartisan action like that.
'Accidentally' killing kids is A-OK, so long as the kid is standing next to a 'legitimate' target when you drop a bomb on them.