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Musa_Ali t1_j6nluu6 wrote

Reply to comment by ntbananas in Human Rights Watch calls on Ukraine to investigate landmine accusations by nikola28

How could it be "justified" if it's a banned weaponry (becsuse they indiscriminately hit combatants and non-combatants). Especially considering that Ukraine signed the agreement in 1997 and people suffering are their own citizens.

As per article - it already resulted in 11 civilian deaths, and 50 life-changing injuries.

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ntbananas t1_j6nmnf2 wrote

The simplistic tradeoff would be civilian deaths caused by landmines vs. civilian deaths prevented by use of landmines against Russian troops. It is clear that Russian troops have no qualms about intentionally massacring civilians. If landmines stop a group of tanks from overrunning a Ukrainian village or whatever, is that worth it? Hard to say without looking at a ton of very specific scenarios.

If Ukraine is doing a good job documenting where landmines are being laid and keeping civilians away from those areas (which, based on what you said, maybe not) then that could be ok.

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Musa_Ali t1_j6no163 wrote

BTW these landmines are anti-personnel, not anti-tank. They're "delivered" by artillery and then fly randomly covering a large area.
And kids wouldn't really know that this forest or that field is documented somewhere as dangerous.

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ntbananas t1_j6noait wrote

I was envisioning something closer to the zone rouge in France, but point taken yeah

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Emotional_Penalty t1_j6pcju7 wrote

Lol no it could not 'be ok'. These things are banned for a reason, just like a whole bunch of other weaponry. If you make exceptions like this you might as well say this for any other type of weaponry.

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Musa_Ali t1_j6nwuh9 wrote

I get the "everything goes" mentality. But it's jarring to see that in reddit it equates with "they can do no wrong".
And how because of that (paraphrasing here) "war crimes are not that bad and if you think about it - even good"

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DDNyght_ t1_j6oyfjt wrote

People will give Ukraine a pass on anything it seems, despite the hypocrisy.

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