r/warcrimes Feb 26 '22

Announcement

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There's been a sudden interest in this sub over the past few days. I should take this opportunity to remind the community, especially new users, of the purpose of the sub.

This isn't a war porn sub. It's just for material documenting, showing, or talking about actual war crimes. Not everything that happens in war is a 'war crime'. War crimes have specific definitions. Those specific, official definitions are listed and explained in the links in the sidebar: here and more details here Just like other crimes, there typically has to be 'intent' for it to be considered a war crime. Civilians getting caught in crossfire during a war is sad, but not necessarily a war crime. Sending a drone to massacre journalists and circling back to kill their rescuers who arrive in an ambulance, and laughing about it back in the drone control room, indicates intent to commit a war crime.

We've had problems in the past with users posting fake information. Posting falsely labelled material. Posting fabricated material. It's very easy for an interested party to take video out of context. It's easy to take a video of an explosion somewhere, and without any context provided, say the other side caused the explosion when it's really your side. It's easy to grab a photo off the internet and stick a false label on it to make your enemy look like they're committing a war crime. Some people do this by mistake, they honestly think they've discovered true evidence of a war crime, but other people do it on purpose, out of misguided patriotism or intentional malice.

Example
That photo purports to be Chinese officials massacring Uighurs, conveniently blurred out so what's happening in the scene is left up to your imagination. You'll believe whatever the headline says on a blurred out photo. But in reality it's just a shot of the aftermath of a car/truck crash in Indonesia.

In wars, it's not unusual for events to be staged for cameras. Both the winning side and the losing side do this, in order to try and get their own people and/or world opinion on their side.

Lots of photos and video of the Russian-Ukrainian war is coming out, and not all of it is legitimate. Stuff is being spread all over the internet, claiming to be Ukraine, but it's really Palestine or Iraq or Syria and it happened years ago, nobody cared then, but suddenly they care if you say it's Russians killing Ukrainians. We're going to remove it if we can determine it's fake. We're going to remove it if it's not a 'war crime'. We're going to remove users who are using the sub as a platform to spread fake news about the war.

If you're going to post material here, be careful, and please make an effort to confirm the material is accurately labelled and constitutes an actual war crime, as per the legal definitions.


r/warcrimes 8h ago

New Syrian rulers (previous rebels) take out an injured man from an ambulance and drag him over steps. According to them he caused a massacre during Assad regime NSFW

4 Upvotes

r/warcrimes 19h ago

Israel gave military all-clear to kill civilians - NYT

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7 Upvotes

r/warcrimes 21h ago

Israel Is Killing Civilians In Gaza On Purpose, And It’s Not Even Debatable

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5 Upvotes

r/warcrimes 1d ago

Israel kills five journalists in single Gaza strike

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archive.is
7 Upvotes

r/warcrimes 3d ago

"I felt like, like, like a Nazi .. it looked exactly like we were actually the Nazis and they were the Jews." - Haaretz article

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20 Upvotes

r/warcrimes 3d ago

Once again, Zionist terrorists have filmed themselves gleefully demolishing civilian homes in Southern Lebanon

11 Upvotes

r/warcrimes 5d ago

Turkey kills a mother and her 12-year-old daughter in Kobani, northern Syria. NSFW

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r/warcrimes 8d ago

Americans will bomb your country until there is nothing left then come back in 20 years to make a movie about how sad their soldiers were when they were doing the bombing.

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53 Upvotes

r/warcrimes 8d ago

12 civilians were killed in a Turkish UAV attack on the El Mustareha village of Ein Issa, northern Syria. 6 of those killed were children. NSFW

66 Upvotes

This is just one of the attacks carried out against Kurdish populated areas in southern Syria.

https://mezopotamyaajansi40.com/en/ALL-NEWS/content/view/261152


r/warcrimes 8d ago

It’s the biolabs, stupid: Is this why Ukraine murdered a Russian general? | The world deserves answers – not just about Igor Kirillov’s death, but about the controversy he was investigating

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2 Upvotes

r/warcrimes 9d ago

Israel denies UN request for aid access to northern Gaza

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r/warcrimes 9d ago

'Of 200 bodies, only 10 were confirmed as Hamas members': IDF soldiers who served in Gaza tell Haaretz that anyone who crosses an imaginary line in the contested Neztarim corridor is shot to death, with every Palestinian casualty counting as a terrorist – even if they were just a child

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15 Upvotes

r/warcrimes 9d ago

War crimes charges against Toronto ISIS suspect are a first for Canada

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globalnews.ca
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r/warcrimes 12d ago

Moscow pledges punishment for murders of Russian journalists | Ukraine’s deliberate attacks on Russian media workers have been supported by the West

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6 Upvotes

r/warcrimes 13d ago

Americans: We hate Chinese. We hate Muslims. But for some unknown reason, we really love Chinese Muslims.

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30 Upvotes

r/warcrimes 13d ago

Footage from post-Assad Syria, depicting the treatment of Alawite civilians and military personnel by the HTS. NSFW

64 Upvotes

r/warcrimes 14d ago

A Massive Database of Evidence, Compiled by a Historian, Documents Israel's War Crimes in Gaza | A database of thousands of videos, photos, testimonies, reports and investigations documents the horrors committed by Israel in Gaza

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14 Upvotes

r/warcrimes 15d ago

UN Officer: Israel’s Bombs Are “Evaporating” Palestinians’ Bodies in Gaza | “Bodies are completely evaporating, and they’re not even finding remains of people anymore,” a UN officer said.

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truthout.org
13 Upvotes

r/warcrimes 15d ago

Israeli strikes kill people guarding aid lorries, Gaza medics say

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bbc.com
12 Upvotes

r/warcrimes 16d ago

World BEYOND War Reports to United Nations on Canadian Weapons Supplied to Israel | “Involvement of Canadian Weapons Manufacturers in Commission of International Crimes Connected to Israel’s Occupation, Apartheid, Siege, and Genocide in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.”

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4 Upvotes

r/warcrimes 22d ago

Iran envoy condemns Israel’s use of white phosphorus

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7 Upvotes

r/warcrimes 22d ago

"We would expect the government of Israel to investigate itself." - Matt Miller Statespox

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11 Upvotes

r/warcrimes 23d ago

[FAFO] IDF said to warn dozens of soldiers against travel abroad over war crimes claims

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11 Upvotes

r/warcrimes 29d ago

Without Including Biden and Blinken and the Issue of Genocide, International Criminal Court Arrest Warrants Are a Sham

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8 Upvotes

r/warcrimes Nov 28 '24

Probe Shows Israel Used US Bomb Kit in Likely 'Deliberate' Attack on Journalists in Lebanon | "Israel's use of U.S. arms to unlawfully attack and kill journalists away from any military target is a terrible mark on the United States as well as Israel"

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