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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean really the existence of war crimes relies on the existence of treaties between the nations defining what those crimes are. Gonna guess the Fire Nation was not a signatory.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The Nazis weren't signatories to the Nuremberg charter, yet they were judged by it. So there is precedent for judging war crimes without pre-existing law.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I'm also not exactly sure how international law works in a world that only has ~~four~~three countries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Maybe it's like original sin, and any general in the same army that destroyed 25% of the world's nations, is automatically a war criminal?