Someone has to keep a record to identify the dead and Russia’s not doing it. Russia is abandoning the bodies of its own troops to rot.
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Replying to @beyerstein
Are people criticizing them for keeping records or for violating the Geneva Convention and using photographs to taunt the families of the dead? I think this part of the article is instructive.pic.twitter.com/Voz9O6d4gi
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Replying to @HeerJeet
You said that they shouldn’t be taking photographs of them at all and I was responding to your argument. And what’s the textual support for this being a war crime? They’re not holding the soldiers as objects of public curiosity, they’re privately notifying families.
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Replying to @beyerstein
Here's a run down of the law. And sending photos to strangers (who may or may not be family) is a form of publishing as well as taunting. This is really sadistic stuff.https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/03/telegram-russian-war-dead-ukraine-pows/ …
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Replying to @HeerJeet
That WaPo speculates that there may be violations of the Geneva convention afoot, but the section on the Geneva Convention they link to doesn’t even facially support their argument.
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Replying to @beyerstein @HeerJeet
They probably are violating the Geneva Convention by posting footage of living captives, but I can’t see any textual support for the claim that they’re violating any part of the GC, let alone committing a war crime, by publishing photos of the battlefield dead.
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Replying to @beyerstein
When Iraqi government posted images of USA dead & POWs in 2003, USA gov't said it was a violation of Geneva Convention.https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-mar-24-war-jazeera24-story.html …
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Replying to @HeerJeet @beyerstein
Do you not understand the difference between an Iraqi television program and private communication?
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Replying to @trizzlor @beyerstein
Private communication, if it's sending photos of dead bodies & taunting messages, is morally worse in every way.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @beyerstein
You can debate the morality without obfuscating whether it's a war crime, and private communication is not. Moreover the WaPo story doesn't provide a single example of "taunting" and could not verify *any* exchanges at all (further underscores that these are *private*).
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Let's arrest the people responsible and test it in court.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @beyerstein
Let's see some evidence of a crime first.
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