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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Hundreds of journalists and photographers from media companies all over the world attended today the screening of a film of assorted footage showing the extent of the horrors committed by Hamas.

Footage was taken from numerous sources, including from bodycams worn by the terrorists, dashcams, from emergency rescue personnel and Israeli security service cameras.

What they saw left many of the reporters visibly shocked and disgusted.

https://twitter.com/emanumiller/status/1716434509128765783

https://nitter.net/emanumiller/status/1716434509128765783

And will there be a screening of IOF warcrimes against Palestinians? Or just these latest Hamas ones?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sorry, but according to the Rules Based International Order, only brown people can commit war crimes.

It’s rule 643. Checkmate.

smuglord

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I never double checked it but I remember a statistic they cited on the-podcast that of the 47 convictions ever carried out by the International Criminal Court, all 47 of them were African

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

some slavs (POCs) too, I think Milosevic

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

In February 2007, the International Court of Justice cleared Serbia under Milošević's rule of direct responsibility for occurrences of crime committed during the Bosnian War. The president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), however, did state that it was "'conclusively proved' that the Serbian leadership, and Milošević in particular, 'were fully aware ... that massacres were likely to occur'".[163] In its 2016 verdict regarding Radovan Karadžić, the ICTY found that "there was no sufficient evidence presented in this case to find that Slobodan Milošević agreed with the common plan [to create territories ethnically cleansed of non-Serbs]" citing "Milošević's repeated criticism and disapproval of the policies and decisions made by the Accused and the Bosnian Serb leadership", though it also noted that "Milošević provided assistance in the form of personnel, provisions and arms to Bosnian Serbs during the conflict".[164][165]

Even Wikipedia has to grudgingly concede Milosevic couldn't be tied directly to war crimes. I guess NATO couldn't fabricate enough evidence? They felt strong enough not to bother? Just didn't care? Or perhaps his skin was too pale for them to really go all in.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

47 convictions ever carried out by the International Criminal Court

What a fucking joke.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

That's why it's nickname is the African Criminal Court.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

shoots an IDF soldier

"I'm visibly shocked and disgusted that a ~~Untermensch~~ brown person would do that"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there any lore reason as to why Hamas was wearing body cams while committing war crimes?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Probably for propaganda. Don't forget that the Nakba (and pretty much every other ethnic cleansing/genocide) was done through the same sort of war crimes and the advertisement of them.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...is this a common thing for countries to do? Gathering reporters to watch violence in order to sway opinion?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Usually they will take the press on guided tours of the site of massacres/mass graves, yeah.